-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2008-12-26 at 00:11 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
- Some testers wait till the RC phase before testing. I myself wait till beta, I don't consider myself hardy enough to test earlier.
Chicken and egg problem :-) If you don't get testers earlier, you don't get stability earlier.
I prefer early testing (as in "beta") because this gives me a good chance to have most of "my" bugs fixed in the final release. If you start with RC, you'll have to live with most of "your" bugs until the next release ;-)
This round I did that, I tested earlier. And I found I could not even test my pet set of bugs (some several years unsolved), because I found new bugs that impeded me from continuing testing. When I wanted to go and test "my" bugs, I always found a new important bug in the way. I had to test if certain feature survived hibernation? Impossible, hibernation crashed. Wanted to test that feature in Gnome? Impossible, the machine crashes or locks. Even now I can not use 11.1, because it crashes, everytime. (I had a simple bug that made me waste many dozens of hours, arguing it, till IBM came into the fry and turned the table round in a day. Bug solved). No, factory is not for novices. I ended quite tired this round... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklUOm0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UEAACdG+J0RVCRlhhov5pGsBMUfyKB 1Q0AnAx21atmpfPc7fZJjnZkn1JZZEIo =/xpn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org