Re: Beta testing Linux (was: Re: vmware on RH 8.0)

[Bernd Kunze]

Warren Togami wrote:

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 00:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

there is always a certain frustration with investing time in beta-testing
red hat, only to find upon the official release that there are really
painfully obvious glitches in the system.

consider this last cycle -- after *three* different betas, i installed
psyche only to find that hwbrowser fails utterly.  how did this get past
the beta testing?

i still like being part of the beta testing phase, but i've quietly
noticed more people say they're going to skip any more x.0 releases
and wait for the x.1.  i don't think this is a good testimonial for
the entire beta testing process.

comments?

rday

I think many of us just never used the distribution in certain ways
while it was a "beta", so certain things slipped through the cracks. Despite this, I feel that this past beta cycle created an overall much
better product than the last x.0. The only thing I'm really dismayed
about is the broken RPM, which is deadly serious problem. =(

Warren

One reason for that is the unsupported migration from beta to stable. If that upgrade
path would be supported I'd test on my production systems once I would be sure
no major hickups occur.

Bernd