unfrozen repo somewhere?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 19:18:14 UTC 2008
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 29 septembre 2008 à 13:59 -0400, Horst H. von Brand a écrit :
>
>> - Make the beta process more effective. Make it last somewhat longer (so
>> there is more testing)?
>
> Totally useless. The #1 problem in testing is processing bug reports
> before they go stale or the reporter gets fed up and starts doing
> something else. Increasing the beta window will just make it harder for
> testers and developpers to meet themselves on the timeline.
You could probably pick up a whole lot more beta testers at a moment's
notice if you'd roll a VMware image that anyone could download and run
under most existing OS's. It wouldn't test all the hardware drivers but
the apps, filesystems, etc. would all run the same.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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