Re: Proposed changes for fedora

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:10, Timothy Murphy wrote:

For example, does 0.1% or 1% or 10% have problems reading the CDs?
Who knows?

What would this really tell you? If we were talking of commercially
produced
CDs then all would be burned, presumably, to limits normally acceptable.
As it is, there is the matter of manufacturer/age/condition of the burner,
type of media used, application and method used to make the burn - and
that's without the fact that the user may or may not have checked the
download sha1sum and the burn's validity

In my experience, the issue often has nothing to do with the CD burner,
since the same problems occur - failure to read some rpm -
in much the same way if you try to install from hard disk.
Also I never seem to get any problems reading from CDs
except during Fedora installation.

I understand the frustration about the number of people talking about
this, but I don't see how you could rule out all the variables.

If it were found that, say, 25% of users had problems with installation
this might encourage the Anaconda team to improve their product.
For example, it should be simple to allow a second read of the CD
in case of failure - Windows does this.
And I don't see why one should not be able to resume from the point
where things broke down.

But basically, Fedora claims to be user-oriented,
so there is an obligation to find out how the user fares.

In my opinion it would be better if the Anaconda team
concentrated on helping users get a basic system installed and working,
and leaving complications to be dealt with later.


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