Re: A Hurd release

[Ayden]

I think that a list of user visible bugs is a good idea, not compiling a
list of what works, and what doesn't helps more people than just
newbies. Releasing something that's buggy where the developers don't
realize it, makes it aggravating. At lease with a bug list, it cuts down
on the confusion. With a bug list, people know what to expect.

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 12:06 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    If someone is Hurd newbie and (s)he tries to use fakeroot for
>    building Debian packages, what do you think that (s)he'll think
>    about the Hurd?
> 
> What will the newbie think if she/head finds a totally obscure bug
> that eats the file-system, or any other horrible thing?  I think that
> you don't really have a point here.
> 
> Bugs exist, if a user finds them they should report them so that they
> can be fixed.  Doesn't matter if it is a newbie, or a guru.
> 
>    a top-level file BUGS that lists major user-visible known bugs.
> 
> That is like "it is not a bug, it is a feature", known bugs should be
> fixed before a release.
> 
> 
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