[opensuse] RE: Open Suse Alpha3 testing - upgradeability

For those people out there testing the next version of open suse 10,3 -
could some great degree of testing involve testing the Product in a
upgrade situation rather than a New installation.
After I upgraded 10,1 to 10,2 RC I came across more bugs to the extent
that the upgrade ability could only be rated as beta. I begin reporting
upgrade bugs, however due to the enormity and frequent comment by
suse.de (Then you should not buy new software). I was not prepared to
waste more of my time.
I always buy boxed software and my only plea for Alpha 10,3 that a great
deal of testing is done via an upgrade (not clean) installation
I have been testing software (given most of my earlier life's experience
was with large Main Frame installations), and latter PC operating systems.
The upgrade path for all New software application development is always
the most difficult to achieve.
As an active tester of RC software I need to gain some personal
confidence that upgrade-ability has been tested by a few more dedicated
other

Kind Regards and
Good Morning 06:30 GMT+10
Scott

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