Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2009/6/20 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>        Not that I have a lot of input on build intricacies, but I whole 
> heartedly
> agree with Stephan here. Time needs to be allowed for the development of 11.2
> to "Settle" in the short amount of time between now and release so a clean up
> of the bugs in the packages can take place without introducing new ones with
> asneeded.
>
>        Regardless of how much manpower is dedicated to 
> rushing-pushing-tinkering and
> changing every package to build with asneeded between now and 11.2 release,
> reality says you will be chasing asneeded bugs all the way up to the release
> date and then bandaiding packages at the last minute to press DVD's and
> inevitably then many unintended consequences of the asneeded rush won't show
> up until after the DVD's are pressed because the state of build process wasn't
> frozen (asneeded=0/asneeded=1) long enough before release to allow adequate
> testing to minimize the number of "Oopses" in the final product.

Your argument is valid but simplistic. How much is "enough time"? 11.2
will be released in 4 month and three weeks (~5months), most distros
release every six months... with their release schedule we would have
just missed one month.
We all agree that "enough time" is needed to test changes... but
nobody agrees about how much is "enough time". That's why we have a
project manager... to bother him about changes we want even if there
is no time and blame him about other changes that got done without
time ;-)
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