Carlos E. R. schrieb:
Mmm. Some users may do that, but others may not. I don't even know how to install a pre-RC release. Are there isos? If there aren't, then you can not increase much the number of betatestesters to the masses.
Of course there are ISOs. There are ISOs from the first Alpha on!
IMO, you should instead slow the RC phase so that normal users can test that phase longer.
I'm very much against this because it will result in something like what we had with the 10.1 release, where users complained and complained and complained because the distro was released with KDE 3.5.1 packages (+backported patches!) when KDE 3.5.3 was already available. I dare saying that most users really want to have recent packages, especially for highly "visible" software like KDE, GNOME, and the kernel. We should try to make more testers participate in the development rather than slowing down the development for everyone. That way we would just encourage users to start testing even later and all users get fewer features because there is less time to implement them. There is no law that testing has to start after feature freeze. Whenever users find an annoying bug in the release, they tend to say that it could have been prevented if the release had been delayed. But that's not systematic, as whenever such a bug is fixed in a newer upstream version, they tend to say that the newer upstream version should have made it into the release which isn't possible with an earlier feature freeze. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org