Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[vcardona@xxxxxxxx (Victor R. Cardona)]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:40:59AM +0100, Derek Fountain wrote:
> I work in the test department for IBM's mass storage systems
> division. I write test tools for a living. I'm fully aware
> of the concepts involved in testing. It just requires
> someone to sit down and write a decent test plan (including
> functional, systems, regression, etc tests) then the tests
> in that plan need to be run. They can't hope to run the plan
> on all possible machines, with all possible combinations of
> hardware, so once they've got it basically right in their
> labs they should put it out to a wider audience. The people
> on this mailing list would be an excellent starting point
> for that. Give us the beta, the automated parts of the test
> plan (if possible) and 2 weeks to reports major bugs. The
> distro would be hugely better for it.

I agree. A short public beta test period would be nice. SuSE is the best distro as is, but it would help catch some of the bugs that tend to appear in the releases. Public betas are one thing I really like about Slackware and Red Hat. They make you feel like you are taking an active role in development. I think that a public beta would benefit SuSE as well.

Victor

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