Comments on: openSUSE Wants Your Vote (on Bugs)

By: Be Fair

Be Fair — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:57:57 +0000

Thanks John, for answering.

By: John

John — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:25:50 +0000

I really do agree with you!!!

It’s Unfair!!! I know it’s not possible to ship it with zero bugs… that is nearly impossible and would probably take a lot of months… (and there wouldn’t be possible to include recent versions of 3rd party software that were released in that “lot of months”) but one a-lot-more bug-free version would be for sure possible…

anyway, i do think it’s a bit unfair… but i bet the developers are doing the best they can with the time Novell has given them… and for Novell… well they have to live on something… so… this schedules have to be used… it’s all part of the big machine… (even it it’s unfair, sometimes…)

So, as far as i know… the things are in their best shapes…

By: Be Fair

Be Fair — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:01:46 +0000

I think we have to ask ourselves this question, “If this were a SLED release, will we release it with this number of unfixed bugs?”
The answer will be a big NO.

Isnt that unfair to treat a commercial release and a free release so differently in an open source project?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:06:19 +0000

I sure hope that we have a distrubution that ships with a working ipw or iwl driver for us intel 3945

By: David

David — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:25:31 +0000

Here's hoping that this bug gets fixed: 333753 I've only been waiting since mid-october though, so who knows, but I can't even install OpenSuse while this is still an issue!

By: Beineri

Beineri — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:05:54 +0000

Actually querying Bugzilla for “SHIP_STOPPER+” flag is more accurate.

By: Beineri

Beineri — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:35:54 +0000

> 10.3 was: “Repair” didn’t work.

AFAIK this regression was introduced as side-effect by a last-day fix of something other (means it did work all the time including last release candidates) and was only discovered after the ISO was sent to the DVD plant. So it was not a known bug like the others we are talking about here.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:46:02 +0000

But, praise to Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu). He’s a genius in his own work – love following him. I just like SUSE more.

By: Sergio1704

Sergio1704 — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:35:06 +0000

>Search Bugzilla for bugs marked as “Blocker”

OK, thanks, but will 11 be released before all the “blockers” are squashed?
10.3 was: “Repair” didn’t work.
Honestly, sometimes I miss the old days, when the only way to get SUSE was buying a box. They were very few bugs and the boxes and their contents were so beautiful.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:33:21 +0000

No, I strongly agree with you. But Beineri is exactly correct. You have to keep in mind, who is Ubuntu committing to with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS? While Ubuntu is popular because it’s free, it doesn’t have the $$ numbers behind it – at least from real business partners. So, what does that mean? In other words, it means that “LTS” is nearly meaningless!!!