On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 11:49 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Changing the label of Milestone 7 is something we can discuss, but then we're back at "why only one Beta?" and I don't want to go there really. With the work flow we have and the hard to predict upstream developments, it's very hard to follow typical expectations of "Beta" and "Alpha". Perhaps someone has a better idea? Or count the milestones back to 0? This would make the count down character more clear and give milestone 0 some speciality.
Hi! I like the countdown idea, but being markedly different from how other distributions do it, it might confuse new testers don't you think? Also, I see there is a duration of 6 days between RC2 and GM. Though I understand that RC2 is supposed to be THE version, I think it would be good if there is a period of at least 10 days between RC2 and GM during which rough edges, solely based on the PM's discretion, can be ironed out. What I think would help is a period where the PM decides, based on inputs from testers throughout the release cycle, on marking bugs that absolutely must be fixed by when the release hits GM. This bug highlighting process could be done by the PM on RC1 release date or something like that, and I am guessing that 10 days between RC2 and GM would help fix them up. It would probably polish the experience and give it some glitter. What do you think? Bye -- Atri P.S.: I am sorry if I am messing up the mail thread here, but I somehow lost all my mails, and I could only reply after I received the referenced mail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org