-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] General Poor quality of Opensuse From: Clayton <smaug42@gmail.com> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Date: 14/07/2009 3.01
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.
I'm guilty of this myself. I will download only some of the Alphas (Milestones) along the way... I will usually install them in VirtualBox... I will not install them on the "bare metal" on my main machine. I can't afford to have the down time.... and I don't have a couple spare machines laying about. VBox is great, but it only goes so far with the real QA testing.
No idea what the right answer is here... this is just an observation.
I am using VBox as well and among others utilizations exactly to testing 11.2 MS3. I believe this is worthwhile, despite the hardware be a virtual, there are still valuable tests to be ran, especially the ones not hardware related, as the case of a broken application, which refuses to start as for example I have noticed for FileZilla or even for X-screensaver first version on MS1. So to reduce the "gigabytes updates" THEN, is better to warn for any bugs BEFORE that the stable version be released. BR, Marco -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpcq7gACgkQi4zJuA3lyFeRcgCfVs0ljZfiiatuEzHhk6V+lFTH UXgAoJq2kK35lLXgKj3gLDq3kF6SAz0a =MS6j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org