Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008, à 14:27 +0100, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
What problems? Let me see, I'll list mine:
- You need a good Internet connection. Factory changes so fast that I have serious difficulties doing a "zypper dup", because it changes before I have time to download.
That's because of the huge amount of stuff you need to download, while not everything has changed. This is hard to solve, but we can try to solve it.
- You need a separate machine so not to disrupt your work. Or you need a separate partition (and remember that the number of partitions is now more limited than they were). There is some danger of what you install in factory partition breaking things in your main partition.
Indeed, I wouldn't recommend to people to use Factory on their work machine (unless you work on openSUSE). But people can still do this on some other machine, or in a virtual machine, or as you mention, on a separate partition. We won't get as many users as for a stable release, but that should still be enough.
- You can end with broken hardware (Intel network!)
True. How often does this happen, though?
- You may be affected by bugs that for you are "blockers" but not for others. I was. I have been a month without being able to run factory at all, because it crashed (reiser and beagle problem reborn!). I had things I wanted to test and have been unable to. Not even now.
That's the hard thing. I don't have a magic solution here :/
- Testers have to be experienced, so that they can solve some problems on their own.
Is this really an issue? (less testers, but that's still fine since we don't expect to have everybody running Factory)
- 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.
- They have to be able to read and write English. Yes, there are testers who don't.
Nod. This would limit the number of testers, but it doesn't mean we can't get more testing. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org