Am Montag 02 August 2010 schrieb Atri:
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? I don't think people using other distributions are our prime target for our beta tests. And I would hope that we can teach _our_ users how we do it.
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
I have a SHIP_STOPPER flag we use to highlight these bugs. And 6 days are really enough, because we shouldn't release RC2 if there are bugs that need 10 days. The distribution is frozen for a long time by then, so new bugs at that point of time are usually only hitting a minority or are a regression that can be fixed quickly. We can move RC2 earlier, but then we get complaints that the time is too long and that we need yet another release in the middle - and all we'll do is downloading. Another small problem is that the week of RC2 is a special one for me personally ;) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org