On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:48 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > I think being on an RC, as opposed to a final release, is as awkward > for us as it is for everyone else. It makes all of our updates harder, > because the codebase is unique to us, it's not a release that upstream > cares about. So, in this case, I think it's a perfect candidate for > -proposed, which is turned off by default and turned on for early > warning. We should of course look at the scope and risks. Phil has > said this affects only one driver, which is good. Martin's point about > Mesa being in the middle of a big complex and critical stack is true > too. On balance, careful review, some sample testing, and then > -proposed seem reasonable to me. >
This sounds good. I am always happy to assist with verification, testing and other works dependant on the time I have and the hardware at my disposal. The success of Ubuntu now and in the future is paramount for us all. > Phil, I really appreciate that you have persisted on this. I also > appreciate that we are anal about scary updates to millions of > systems. I have met literally hundreds of people who's grandparents > and parents are running Ubuntu and who would be crushed to have it > DOS'd by a bad update to X, so I respect and support the SRU process > to avoid Another Wiesbaden ;-) > > Mark Thanks for the prompt replies of Martin and yourself. If I decried the SRU process as a quality engineer at a former post, I would be going against the basis of what I know and try to practise. I do see the need to be somewhat anal and the last thing any of us want is to see a bad update go out to whomever tat maybe who uses Ubuntu. However, nothing is set in stone for me and things change, we then adapt and I can sense further healthy discussion about LTS's and the SRU process in the future. ;-) Regards Phil
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