Azerion <azerion@gmail.com> writes:
[...] Who is harmed when 10.1 is delayed?
Let me just answer this question - and comment on your specific problem: I'm surprised that you see this 20 times, I never had it more than once or twice - and I do install a lot. So, if during *install* of packages, you get the box that often (20 times?), then something looks broken with what you're doing - or the packages. So, when do you encounter this? Everything is open source, so patches are welcome to implement this. Our developers are working on getting everything working correctly - and spend long days and weekends on this. I consider the open issues more important than this issue - and would like to give all of us some "normal" days and well-earned vacation as well. So, this is not a blocker for me - it's from the usability point of view not good at all and should be improved - and therefore let's put this on the list for 10.2. We've delayed 10.1 already for some time - and SUSE Linux is not just a software that is released to the ftp server but also a product that will be sold on the market which gives us extra challenges: So, our sales and operations people have to do a lot of logistics: Reserving slots in the fab, getting manuals printed, getting boxes printed, putting media and manuals into the box - and then shipping it to distributors that ship it to shops. The distributors and shops have to get informed about a release, order boxes and sell them - and we have to do marketing as well... - and a delay would have an impact on the boxes sold, remember Novell has it's stockholders. On the other hand, shipping a product that's so broken that nobody wants to buy it is even worth - and that's why I asked initially about the state of the product and how you perceive it. I listen to you - and went today to most of our developers and asked them on their view of 10.1 and got from most a "go ahead" - and make then a decision and somebody will not agree with me it but I have to make one. Delay is one option, shifting priorities is another one - and then there are bugs that you only find after people have used the product for a couple of months, or newly found security holes - and that's why we need patches handling (online update)... cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126