On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 07:59 PM, Michael Holt wrote:
>> Well, as stated earlier, if too many useless, uninformative, false bug >> reports start showing up, then the list may become unavailable for >> the average joe or the developers will move to another list or just >> email directly. Something like that. It's an informative list for >> interested parties to lurk on as it is now, but I can imagine it >> becoming chaotic and testing the patience of developers. > > You know, about every 6 months this same theme seems to pop up on > cooker - > who should be allowed to post to cooker. IMHO this thread could die if > people would just read the Mandrake homepage. Everytime there is a new > beta or release candidate, Mandrake announces it and asks for everyone > to > download, try it out and give their opinions - "your participation is > highly appreciated" is the exact quote. So how 'bout if we just go > with > that, eh? Exactly. We can't exactly ask everyone to test and report bugs and then arbitrarily decide who to accept bugs from and whom not to. For this reason, cooker will never become a closed list, although there probably are some who would rather it be. But, in my mind, those people are selfish and not seeing the overall picture and purpose of what cooker, and the betas, are for. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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