Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-09 Thread Daouda LO
Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daouda LO wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >>>Ok, I must admit, I missed the first time wizzard on 9.2 (and was not a > >>>clubmember yet when I installed 9.1), for X crashes badly with my dual > >>>screen setup. (A know

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-09 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daouda LO wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > >>>Ok, I must admit, I missed the first time wizzard on 9.2 (and was not a >>>clubmember yet when I installed 9.1), for X crashes badly with my dual >>>screen setup. (A known bug in the Ma

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-09 Thread Daouda LO
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Ok, I must admit, I missed the first time wizzard on 9.2 (and was not a > > clubmember yet when I installed 9.1), for X crashes badly with my dual > > screen setup. (A known bug in the Matrox driver) After I finished > > hacking, the first time wizzard has

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-07 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchan Milne wrote: | So far, no one has been willing to file a bug on gaim, so it's likely | not going to get any official attention (which was more what I was | aiming to bring across ...). | Just did so, see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-07 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> When you can't connect from any currently supported Mandrake release to a >> Windows 2003 Server, did we ship an update to samba-3.0.0 for all the >> current releases? > > >> No. Because they

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:37:57 -0400 Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And you should know by now my solution to these > problems is to build my own packages and stick them out on my > website for anyone in the same boat, if that's even necessary in > this case since the gaim guys usually offer Man

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-06 Thread Rob
On Monday 06 October 2003 05:59, Buchan Milne wrote: > Oh, so the decision on whether there should be an official > update is base on whether it affects Rob. Nah, Rob's decision on whether to advocate such a thing is based on whether it affects Rob. Linux owns the server market from where I sit

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-06 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2003 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>So, when we couldn't connect to a samba (2.0.6) server from a >>Windows 2000 machine, did we isssue an update to 2.0.7 for all >>the current releases? > > > Had connecting from

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread Rob
On Sunday 05 October 2003 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, when we couldn't connect to a samba (2.0.6) server from a > Windows 2000 machine, did we isssue an update to 2.0.7 for all > the current releases? Had connecting from win2k worked in previous Samba releases? I don't think it had. >

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread bgmilne
> On Sunday 05 October 2003 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > If software is buggy, you can do three things IMHO: >> Sorry, but where is the bug report for this buggy software? >> This is not a bug (to my understanding), but a feature >> enhancement (if we're talking about gaim). > > If by "feat

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread Rob
On Sunday 05 October 2003 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If software is buggy, you can do three things IMHO: > Sorry, but where is the bug report for this buggy software? > This is not a bug (to my understanding), but a feature > enhancement (if we're talking about gaim). If by "feature enhan

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread bgmilne
> On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 17:05, Thomas Backlund wrote: >> > > People will start saying: "... but you updated that package ...", >> and "this package adds or modifies this or that feature that is >> needed... if we don't have it I consider it's broken... and we >> can't have a "broken" distrib..." >>

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-05 Thread Thomas Backlund
Robert L martin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 05 Lokakuu 2003 19:03): > > OTOH many of the users of Download Edition does not ever buy a package or > > become a club member anyway, wich means it does not generate any income > > there either... > > And this is where you need to mkae

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread Thomas Backlund
Jos Hulzink kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 05 Lokakuu 2003 19:04): > On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 17:05, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > > People will start saying: "... but you updated that package ...", > > > > and "this package adds or modifies this or that feature that is > > > > needed...

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-05 Thread Robert L martin
BTW, most (ie >95% of) internet subscribers in South Africa are on dialup. We have about 3000 DSL lines total available in the country ... and I expect there are many countries in a similar situation, where just adding OpenOffice.org to updates would require users to run a > 6 hour update ... and e

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-05 Thread Robert L martin
OTOH many of the users of Download Edition does not ever buy a package or become a club member anyway, wich means it does not generate any income there either... And this is where you need to mkae sure that 99.999% of the packages (by useage) work the first time. Speaking as one of those D/l

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread Jos Hulzink
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 17:05, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > People will start saying: "... but you updated that package ...", > > > and "this package adds or modifies this or that feature that is > > > needed... if we don't have it I consider it's broken... and we can't > > > have a "broken" distrib.

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake 9.2 update policy (was: gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out )

2003-10-05 Thread bgmilne
> Kirjoitit viestissäsi (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 05 Lokakuu 2003 17:28): >> On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 14:55, Thomas Backlund wrote: >> > Jos Hulzink kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 05 Lokakuu >> 2003 >> > today gaim, tomorrow OpenOffice.org final..., and then ... >> > >> > and suddenly the