El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 15:28:35, Anke Boersma va escriure: > This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. What was found > and reported often, is regressions from say, 4.x.2 to 4.x.3.
Right, regressions are bad, we all have them, but as said, raising the flag 2 days before the release is going to happen is most of the times too late, if you guys really want to help, we have to find a way to find them earlier. Cheers, Albert > Reported not in bug reports, but more a discussion on IRC, see if anyone > was aware, sometimes ml, again, just checking if it was a known/accepted > regression. > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2013 14:37:22 Anke Boersma wrote: > > > any bugs found in the early tars (not build related) should > > > > > > be kept quiet, until the tars are officially announced. It is better to > > > have final tars that have bugs that were known for a few days, than > > > reporting. > > > > What kind of bugs are you expecting to find: > > 1) Regressions from the last RC -> escalate > > 2) Bugs already present in the RC and reported > > 3) Bugs already present in the RC and not reported > > > > From experience of our users and their usage with bugzilla. 90 % is > > category 2 > > (that obviously includes experienced users). Given that we release with > > known > > bugs (bug free software is impossible) it hardly matters whether there are > > a > > few more or less and it wouldn't change anything because we are post final > > tagging (except it's a showstopper -> escalate). > > > > That said: I keep to what I wrote. For me as a heavy bugzilla user (just > > look > > at commit-digest) getting bug reports for an unreleased version would > > cause > > more work and confusion. My first comment would be "this version is not > > yet > > released, where do you have it from? Are you sure you are running exactly > > that > > version?" - if I don't know the user and that he is an experienced Chakra > > user > > having access to pre-released packages, I have to assume he entered junk > > which > > happens more often than you would expect. > > > > For everything else of your mail: sorry, I'm not qualified to > > answer/comment > > on that :-) > > -- > > Martin Gräßlin > > _______________________________________________ > > release-team mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
