Re: Red Hat 5.0 Release date
On 20 Nov 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> I don't see what's really, really wrong about making a hybrid libc5/libc6
> release. We should aim for making most things libc6, if at all possible.
> Maybe even having a week we dedicate to making non-maintainer releases.
Of course I see nothing wrong with an hybrid libc5/6 distrib, but not only
hamm was planed to be 100% libc6 based, but we also have converted ~80% of
the packages, so IMHO it would be too bad to stop here.
> The last release cycle was way too long. We should compress the testing
> window and organize it much more. We badly misused the important testing
> concepts of 'frozen' and 'release candidate'.
You badly over-evaluate the number of people in the testing/QA team
compared to the work involved... _(;
Cordialement,
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