Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@opensuse.org> writes:
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:46 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Hylton, we're doing this business since some time and do basically what you propose: * the DVDs are on the critical path * PDFs for printed manuals are delivered earlier so that they are printed at the same time the DVDs are pressed * The other material is also ordered for that day
And yes, we have only one week between sending the DVD to production and delivering enough boxes out to suppliers. It just is not going faster.
But should we delay the public release for that? In the past we delayed it for a couple of months to earn our money with the box - today we offer a choice.
I haven't been a big proponent of extending the time between goldmaster and public release, although if two weeks after going gold is the quickest boxes can be produced, extending it by one week (since it's one week already) probably wouldn't cause too much fuss. And it could be good, from a marketing perspective, e.g. offer the goldmaster release to magazines and reviewers early, so they can test openSUSE's final release.
Magazines in general test the media and those we could also make online available under some kind of non-distribution role.
Again, it's not the ideal circumstance, but we should maybe look into it?
Yes, please talk to Michael (see below).
shop.novell.com is unfortunately another story,
That's interesting, since most of the complaints, mine and others, have to do with shop.novell.com, especially in North America. Andreas, do you know of any attempts to try and improve the situation with Novell's shop, and do you mind elaborating on what exactly you mean by it's another story.
Michael - who's on vacation the next two weeks - is involved with shop.novell.com and could better comment on it. Btw. the pre-order button should be changed since friday and delivered should have started, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126