On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:53:21AM -0000, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Indeed the alpha release should have been replaced in a hurry by a new > release with the module blacklisted. What I see from "outside" is that > the burocratic need to release images only at established dates is > preventing a well known practice - release a fixed iso in a hurry - to > happen.
This is not "bureaucratic". A working milestone image can't be produced at random, it takes approximately a week to prepare and validate a set of images and we can only muster one of these once every two weeks (at best). Doing a new alpha release right would have meant deferring the beta; doing it wrong is no better than just deleting the images, since there's no guarantee they'll work. This does not mean that the Ubuntu developers don't care about the integrity of testers' hardware (and I would appreciate it if the various apologists, who are not Ubuntu developers, would stop claiming that users should expect the possibility of hardware damage). However, the alpha milestones are targeted at testers who are part of the development community, they're not intended for general consumption - people using these images should be subscribed to ubuntu-devel-announce, where notice of the problem has been posted, so making the alpha images unavailable for download is really not warranted and would only hinder getting necessary feedback from users who don't have the affected hardware. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
