Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-17 Thread Timothy R. Butler
I'm surprised you find SuSE and RedHat better tested than Mandrake. One of my biggest problems with SuSE (which I used for over two years as my preferred distro) is that they have a closed beta program. Perhaps they haver very strict testing, but as long as it doesn't get real world testing,

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Pixel wrote: > > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mandrake 8.2 is plainly > > still in Alpha test and they are improperly co-opting us outside users > > to assist that process, which should be an internal function. I am > > looking forward to when Alpha has been completed and Beta

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Dickey
5B 552F ---Original Message---   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, March 16, 2002 07:23:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > Re "wildly moving target" and "we are in deep freeze", cooker received > 1025 new or changed RPMs in the last 24 hours. Mandrake 8.2 is plainly > still in Alpha test and they are improperly co-opting us outside users > to assist that process, which should be an internal function. I am

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Murray J. Root
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Re "wildly moving target" and "we are in deep freeze", cooker received > 1025 new or changed RPMs in the last 24 hours. Re-signing packages does not require re-testing. As for why Mandrake doesn't take you seriously, read the following as if it we

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Pixel
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re "wildly moving target" and "we are in deep freeze", cooker received > 1025 new or changed RPMs in the last 24 hours. AFAIK re-signing packages doesn't imply re-testing. AFAIK there has been 17 new packages in the last 24 hours, with mainly small chan

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Jeff Dickey wrote: > > Ron - keep up the good work. > Mandrake folks - ditto, but either let's have a deep freeze or let's get > Cooker fixed - you can't deep freeze a wildly moving target. > > As a quality engineer, I think Ron has a legitimate complaint about the > response to his defect repor

Re: [Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread SI Reasoning
--- Jeff Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron - keep up the good work. > Mandrake folks - ditto, but either let's have a deep > freeze or let's get > Cooker fixed - you can't deep freeze a wildly moving > target. > > As a quality engineer, I think Ron has a legitimate > complaint about the >

[Cooker] Defect Handling Defects [Was: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER!]

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Dickey
Ron - keep up the good work. Mandrake folks - ditto, but either let's have a deep freeze or let's get Cooker fixed - you can't deep freeze a wildly moving target. As a quality engineer, I think Ron has a legitimate complaint about the response to his defect report - one of his drives is rendered