2008/12/23 jdd <jdd@dodin.org>:
Stephan Binner a écrit :
On Saturday 20 December 2008 16:55:49 Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
So we have problems scheduling releases, due to difficulty of shipping physical disks.
No. I think you are confusing and mixing different things now. The discussion about development schedule has nothing to with whether a boxed release will exist or when it ships.
wrong, the GM release is delayed by the time necessary to burn dvd's.
If Novell was not providing at all dvd's, we could release days earlier.
The problem is not really when the net release is shipped, it's that bug fixes are not getting into the install system kernel, because things are frozen. That leads to boxes being unable to boot the Release and/or the install failing for weird and wonderful reasons. If a user finds 'OS doesn't work & Ubuntu just worked' they are lost to us. So effectively the last week of -RC testing is pointless from hardware and install software point of view, as once the release is missed, it's not only getting a fix accepted for update, but getting updates of ISO files made in order to solve for the end user. Now if I bought a box set, put the DVD in, and found it just didn't boot, when other distros do, I would be pretty upset and disappointed. The general feeling expressed by end users in forum and mail list, is for higher quality, not faster releases. Box sets will be more likely to be deployed where a net connection is slow, poor, or unavailable. So surely it makes sense to ship a higher quality product in the box set, than what can be served up for download on the net, as those first ISO's are updateable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org