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What's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstartWhat's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstartPosted Sep 3, 2006 13:42 UTC (Sun) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322)In reply to: What's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstart by sbergman27 Parent article: What's happening at Ubuntu: from X.org updates to upstart
Obviously, we deserve and are content to receive criticism that this upgrade broke a lot of people's systems. All the same, while it's true that the testing of the X.org patches in question was clearly not *sufficient*, I think you're maligning the Ubuntu team somewhat by skipping over the fact that it only failed on certain classes of machines. The developer responsible for the upload tested it on a number of his own systems with substantially different hardware configurations before release, and had a number of interested users try out the changes as well, and no problems were found in that process. The problem was that it wasn't tried out on a wide enough range of hardware, and that we didn't flag the patch as potentially risky during approval for dapper-updates, not that it was uploaded blindly with no testing.
Much of the discussion within the development team was more about best practices for dealing with emergencies once they arise, rather than "huh, you think we should do some testing, then?". Of course, there are changes that we can and will make to the testing process for stable release updates to make this sort of thing much less likely in the future; there will be details of that in the post-mortem report.
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