Re: How about slowing down the Fedora release cycle to allow for more QA???
Am Fr, den 21.11.2003 schrieb Benjamin J. Weiss um 16:37:
I've been using RH since 7.2 (okay, I know a bunch of you have
been using it
lots longer), but I can't remember EVER seeing this number of posts on a RHL
release about things that are non-functional right out of the box. Sure,
plenty of security patches would show up, but at least for the most part, if
you installed from the CD, things would *work* even before you got out to
the up2date site and got stuff patched.
I don't see much more problems as with previous versions. There is much
more traffic here as on the old Red Hat lists. So you will see much more
postings - in absolute numbers - regarding problems - purely
statistical. The relative frequencies may be the same as before.
I'm sure many of you are on both the fedora and redhat lists.
Notice the
difference in the tenor and number of posts? In an average day on the
redhat list, I see around 100-150 posts, mostly "how do I configure this" or
"what package does this" or other sysadmin type stuff. Here, I see 300-400
posts a day, with "this doesn't work when installed" or "this
won't install"
or "up2date/apt/yum doesn't work after a standard install", etc.
There is one big issue namely up2date and yum repositories. Red Hat made
the shift so switch from rhn to a separate fedora repository quite late
so during the tests not all bugs were found.
But if you use the core software and use pretty compatible Hardware, I
don't see more probs as usual.
Peter