On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:36:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for the reply and your efforts on this. As I can't add to the > code side I would be happy to help with testing to look for problems in > this area with feisty herd. If you could give me any suggestions on > testing or point me to resources regarding such (e.g. guidelines) I would > appreciate it.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing is the jumping-off point for all of this. > I understand your decision to rely on qtparted. I'd like to ask that in > the future a halting function or warning be added to the process in any > case where there is a known possibility for something as serious as eating > data due to a known bug - just a dialog box would be fine, or even just a > bit of text. [I'm not sure from your reply if you knew of the possibility > of this happening.] Of course, it was silly of me to work without proper > backups, but users are routinely unreasonable in their reliance on things > being error-free and it could potentially save a lot of frustration. Certainly, had I known it would be that bad, I wouldn't have taken this approach in the first place; at release time I thought (as it turned out, incorrectly) that I had successfully managed to work around the worst of the problems. I'll certainly bear that in mind for the future, although I hope that we're past all this now. (In alpha releases of the installer, we nowadays have a warning message on the first page explaining that it's not production-quality yet, as a gesture towards this sort of thing.) Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- manual partitioning fails in numerous fatal ways https://launchpad.net/bugs/84473 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
