no ... *really* ... any ETA for updated beta?

[jdow]

From: "Mike Chambers" <mike at netlyncs.com>
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 19:44, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> > >
> > Oh please....just stop. This beta is being handled very much like every
> > previous beta..this isn't a community project yet. What we breifly saw
> > at rhl.redhat.com  were the very first public moves towards rhl-"the
> > project." In the past...from beta to beta...you had no more information
> > about what was going on than you do now. It's much better to look at how
> > redhat has said so far, simple as intent for the future. How development
> > in this beta is being done is very not unlike previous betas.
> >
> > Yeesh...simply abandoning the consumer version..yeah thats right...there
> > is a huge fear of that happening...even with all the rawhide activity
> > and the new beta update channel on rhn....yeppers everyone should really
> > be afraid this time around.  Is yer manager also afraid of a large
> > asteroid hitting the earth...the odds of that happening are probably
> > higher....i'm sure there is an insurance company out there that will
> > offer you a reasonable policy as a risk management strategy against
> > world ending asteroid impact.
> >
> > When Red hat 7.3 came out....where was the promise of a next version?
> > When Red Hat 8 came out.....where was the promise of a next version?
> > When Red Hat 9 came out................
> >
> > If a boss or manager really wants to get down and dirty with the day to
> > day...week to week....month to month happenings of the beta phase. They
> > can get their arse over to an ftp mirror of rawhide and watch the daily
> > additions...they can get their arse over to bugzilla and watch the bugs
> > being worked on....they can get their arse on here and lurk. If simply
> > knowing that a beta phase is on going, isn't enough to assuage a
> > manager's fear that rhl isn't about to disappear...how could that person
> > ever find the courage to use any software. No vendor of consumer
> > software goes out of their way to say, "yessir...we plan to definitely
> > continue to make new versions of a certain product 4 years from
> > now...one every 6 months or so....garunteed"
>
> Thanks Jeff, took the words right out of my mouth.

Mike, I just tell impatient dweebs and bosses that it will be out on
the second Tuesday next week. If I ever run into a week with two
Tuesdays I'm in deep doodoo.

{^_-}