I am rather pessimistic if things will really get better. Many of the things that were bad were never discussed or bug reports dismissed. Also it was clear that Fl2 would not be as stable as necessary. That must have been a concious decision, too. Foresight ISOs have never been tested thoroughly. The primary goal always was to get them out on the same date as GNOME. This always includes that you have less then a day time to incorporate new packages, make ISOs and make test installs. Other distributions have an update freeze and then test for weeks or months. So the install problems are foreseeable as you cant expect that no tests and month long tests would turn out to be the same. If that would be the case no distro would test the ISOs much longer. The same principles are true for other aspects of Foresight.
Submitted by Thilo Pfennig (not verified) on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 12:46.
I am rather pessimistic if things will really get better. Many of the things that were bad were never discussed or bug reports dismissed. Also it was clear that Fl2 would not be as stable as necessary. That must have been a concious decision, too. Foresight ISOs have never been tested thoroughly. The primary goal always was to get them out on the same date as GNOME. This always includes that you have less then a day time to incorporate new packages, make ISOs and make test installs. Other distributions have an update freeze and then test for weeks or months. So the install problems are foreseeable as you cant expect that no tests and month long tests would turn out to be the same. If that would be the case no distro would test the ISOs much longer. The same principles are true for other aspects of Foresight.
Submitted by Thilo Pfennig (not verified) on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 12:46.