Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 08:01 +0200, Clayton wrote:
> >        I don't know what change is needed, but I do know there needs to
> > be a commitment to putting out releases that you can pop in the tray
> > and have work without gigabyte updates required in the first 30 days.
> Well.... one problem (as I see it) is that the number of testers on
> the Alpha and Beta runs is... very low.  Once the final release comes
> out, the wider audience thinks that they can now install... they do,
> and then QA problems start to show up... stuff that was missed in the
> Factory cycle.

Yep.  As an Open Source software developer myself I think this is
generally true.  Test releases, of just about everything, get little
play.  Then all kinds of stuff shows up in the release.... ugh.

> I'm guilty of this myself. 

Me too. :(  

I've promised myself I'll install the latest alpha into a VMware VM next
weekend.  We'll see.

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