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Why people don't test development distributionsWhy people don't test development distributionsPosted Jul 7, 2009 10:41 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (guest, #33263)Parent article: Why people don't test development distributions
I am sorry to hear that Your Editor has repeatedly experienced problems with rawhide (including being stuck some years ago at the start of a presentation). It is well known that rawhide is perhaps the most disruptive choice. Was not it that Fedora even was the first to screw up sound by including PA.
The distro with the U has a track record of being not as broken, but then keeps that broken tate over the entire release as no updates for annoying things are released. So that is no choice either from my POV.
In the obvious move, I am suggesting to try something different. (And it makes no sense to post what I am thinking about because that would be followed by lots of arguments again.) Needless to say I used development cycle releases from ****************** (don't try to count, it's random) on shipped embedded devices without issue.
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Why people don't test development distributions Posted Jul 10, 2009 21:07 UTC (Fri) by Velmont (subscriber, #46433) [Link]
It's true that Ubuntu remains broken trough it's entire lifespan. Why is that? To not get new bugs? It's very troubling and unsatisfying.
Why people don't test development distributions Posted Jul 10, 2009 22:25 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]
Because it only attracts the deadweight from the Windows base - the real developers stay with what they had before ;-)
Why people don't test development distributions Posted Jul 22, 2009 3:09 UTC (Wed) by maco (subscriber, #53641) [Link]
Not enough developers who know what they're doing. Plenty of folks running around trying to triage bugs and getting stuck, not so many folks who know how to code, let alone code well. If left to hack, they're more efficient, but then folks like me who want to learn and have patches to fix those annoying issues keep interrupting them going "hey hey can you upload this patch?" and breaking their concentration. Patch acceptance procedures are being streamlined to try to fix that.
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