Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Azerion - Gmail <azerion@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Op donderdag 16 februari 2006 11:41, schreef Andreas Jaeger:
>> FYI: We have found some showstoppers and need some more time to fix
>> them, so Beta4 is at least a day late...
>>
>
> First off all: What do you mean with showstoppers? Are these the 'blockers' 
> from the buglist?

Some of the worst blockers from the buglist:
* Installation from physical CD media is not working (network
  installation works as well as install from the first CD - just the
  media change is not handled correctly).
* If you did an installation from an ftp tree with packages for
  multiple architectures in it - like the factory tree - sometimes the
  package for the wrong architecture was choosen.

> Second: Maybe it is an idea to have, in the future, more time between the 
> beta's so that the time is more flexible. The first roadmap was fast like an 
> Ferrari but now it has to be slowed down to a Lada :P.  I see that some 
> blockers are introduced with ZEN, so that is a reason that you could not 
> calculate into she roadmap. But maybe some more time does not hurt.

We'll do some extra betas until all this has settled down.  Beta4 will
be a bit rough as seen from the list of "Most Annoying Bugs".

> If the beta is finished, and the development is 4 days ahead of the schedule, 

That won't happen ;-(

> you have 4 more days for the next beta so that will be ready in time as well 
> even when strange things happen. And if you have 'remaining time' with all 

We have some puffer in it to make a timely release but sometimes it
just does not work.

> releases then you can releases the Final earlier then planned on the 
> roadmap....That's nice to show up in news with insteas of 'had been delayed'

We're currently doing weekly betas - and in the past I've been
critized because not all of our betas were not published...

Andreas
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