On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 08:39 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm not disagreeing. my point was that it was understandable
that the
inability to even *install* the beta software might explain the higher
frustration level among some of the folks who have posted on the subject.
I'm one of those who can't boot and I'm not frustrated. It's a new
release of beta software with several new things. If I wanted I could
have waited a few day for some of the initial bugs to get flushed but I
didn't.
I really think there's just some trolls out there (or newbie testers).
in addition, in a lot of cases, when the installation fails, the poor
user
is left wondering if it's something *they* did wrong, and they spend a lot
of time trying again before they finally realize that it's not their
fault.
Welcome to testing :)
one final point. traditionally, the whole testing cycle suggests
that, as
one gets closer and closer to the official release, beta releases are
theoretically supposed to get more and more reliable. put another way,
it's a bit unnerving to suddenly discover that something that worked just
fine in test1 is broken in test2, *especially* something as critical and
fundamental as installation.
Well I think the release announcement say it all. There are several new
things that weren't in FC2T1. And I don't want them to freeze the
release to soon. If they do they'll be getting even more static about
not updating packages.
anyway, i'm not ranting about this, just making some observations
about
why some of the previous posters on this topic might be just a bit edgy
about it, that's all.
I wouldn't underestimate the troll factor.
:)