On 08/02/2010 09:10 AM, Atri wrote:
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?
My impression with 11.3 was that there was very little time between RC2 and GM being sent to the mirrors. Any bugs not caught by RC1 and not fixed by RC2 were released. If the intent is for RC2 to be GM, then the short time is OK. Is it possible to add an extra week between RC1 and RC2? @Coolo - From my perspective, the whole process improved a lot between 11.2 and 11.3. In the Forums, the majority of problems have been the usual ones with proprietary drivers (mostly graphics) and upstream difficulties with the 2.6.34 kernel. In wireless networking, so far only one minor bug has been found in a configuration that I could not test - no available hardware, and it has been fixed. We certainly had nothing like the networking difficulties in 11.2 GM. Please accept my congratulations. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org