Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-29 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Thu Aug 28 17:24 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wrote: > > > Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head of R&D for the > > market leader in specialist software used in the construction industry. > > If I caused this much havoc to our custom

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:33, Adam Williamson wrote: > Customers have a right to expect a certain level of service, because > they're PAYING for a certain level of service. We are not paying to > use Cooker; therefore we have no right to expect or demand any level > of service. True, but that's not t

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-29 Thread w9ya
On Thursday 28 August 2003 05:20 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 23:05, w9ya wrote: > > On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:33 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:24, eddie wrote: > > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wr

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 23:05, w9ya wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:33 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:24, eddie wrote: > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wrote: > > > >>Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head o

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread w9ya
On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:33 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:24, eddie wrote: > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wrote: > > >>Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head of R&D for the > > >>market leader in specialist sof

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:24, eddie wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wrote: > > > > > >>Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head of R&D for the > >>market leader in specialist software used in the construction industry. > >>If I caused

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread eddie
Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wrote: Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head of R&D for the market leader in specialist software used in the construction industry. If I caused this much havoc to our customers, with the financial consequences to t

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Scherer
On Thursday 28 August 2003 19:24, BLINDAUER Emmanuel wrote: > For my part, I must be in the mountain, because, since 3 ou 4 weeks, > I don't have access to a mirror which is complete. How ca we want to > help at cooker, if we even can get the packages ? The original > unstable side of cooker is on

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BLINDAUER Emmanuel wrote: > Le Jeudi 28 Août 2003 19:09, Adam Williamson a écrit : > >>>Question, how can we test something like urpmi using ftp before the >>>"customers" get hold of it if the sites are not stable at any time? >> >>I think by the point

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread BLINDAUER Emmanuel
Le Jeudi 28 Août 2003 19:09, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > Question, how can we test something like urpmi using ftp before the > > "customers" get hold of it if the sites are not stable at any time? > > I think by the point of this comment you're making a mountain out of a > molehill. I haven't bee

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:48, Dave Cotton wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 18:24, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Cooker has nothing at all to do with "customers". Cooker is for > > volunteer beta testers. That's what we are. > > And volunteers who are trying to ensure that the final paying > _customer

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Cotton
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 18:24, Adam Williamson wrote: > Cooker has nothing at all to do with "customers". Cooker is for > volunteer beta testers. That's what we are. And volunteers who are trying to ensure that the final paying _customers_ who buy boxed sets get a good well tested product, and keep

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Dave Cotton wrote: > Before I "retired" to France I worked in the UK as head of R&D for the > market leader in specialist software used in the construction industry. > If I caused this much havoc to our customers, with the financial > consequences to them, I would have

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Cotton
Elsewhere someone suggested that the master mirror should be updated only once or twice a day, this could well stop some of this madness. For quite a while I lost Evolution and so used Kmail to pull my mail, leaving the mails on my server, when I got Evolution working again I had 650 mails, this m

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Dorman
> > The plea is always please test, give us the means to test and we > > will. > > Well, i think that people forget that mandrake employees are working. > They do not break mirrors for pleasure, and they are fully aware of the > problem. > > Do you really think they try to slow down the test ? to

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Frank Griffin
Adam Williamson wrote: I see about five people posting to the list moaning about the mirrors, so I don't post to the list moaning about the mirrors. Why would I? I think the point is that what you *don't* see is a single post saying "this is what's going on, and this is when we think it will be

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 08:32, Dave Cotton wrote: > Frequently when it all blows up in their faces after release we get the "well > nobody told me so I assumed it was all right" type of posting. How many > people are actually trying to test on as near to production as possible > machines, I doubt

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Mercredi 27 Août 2003 16:21, Buchan Milne a écrit : > Frank Griffin wrote: > > ftp.uninett.no is currently "stuck". It got a slew of new packages > > overnight (GMT -0500), but is not getting updated at all now, and > > approximately 150-200MB of new packages are missing (a guess based on > >

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Griffin wrote: > ftp.uninett.no is currently "stuck". It got a slew of new packages > overnight (GMT -0500), but is not getting updated at all now, and > approximately 150-200MB of new packages are missing (a guess based on > the current size o

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Cotton
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:01, Michael Scherer wrote: > Well, i think that people forget that mandrake employees are working. > They do not break mirrors for pleasure, and they are fully aware of the > problem. > > Do you really think they try to slow down the test ? to annoy their > testers ?

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Scherer
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 09:32, Dave Cotton wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 22:48, Paul Dorman wrote: > > but I'm peeved > > You are not alone. > > > This happens too often (like, every day). Can the maintainers > > **pah-lease** sort out the mirror situation. > > That gets my vote. > > I hav

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Cotton
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 22:48, Paul Dorman wrote: > but I'm peeved You are not alone. > This happens too often (like, every day). Can the maintainers > **pah-lease** sort out the mirror situation. That gets my vote. I have posted on this list and 1 or 2 others have. Perhaps everyone in contro