Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha [LWN.net]

Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha

Posted Aug 29, 2010 18:17 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha by Tet
Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha

Of course, noone is claiming that every possible bug is going to block the release. For one, system-config-display is deprecated tool and even orphaned for the next release. If anyone cares enough, they should pick it up and work on it. Even if it was not the case, bugs in that tool doesn't meet anything close to the release criteria.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria

So if your point was that Fedora like every distribution prioritizes and fixes some bugs and leaves others unfixed, that isn't news. I am not sure why you singled out X11 bugs for example because bugzilla stats would show a very large number of them getting filed and fixed during the development cycle. I would say, the chances are actually higher than some other components.

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Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha

Posted Sep 1, 2010 11:30 UTC (Wed) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link]

For one, system-config-display is deprecated tool and even orphaned for the next release

Ye gods. I struggle to keep up with all the changes that seem to be going on. What's the replacement tool (bearing in mind I don't use GNOME, which AFAIK is still a supported configuration)?

I am not sure why you singled out X11 bugs for example because bugzilla stats would show a very large number of them getting filed and fixed

Maybe I've just been unlucky, then, because not a single one of mine has ever been fixed. I keep reporting them anyway, because it's the right thing to do, but it's hard to keep up the motivation when nothing ever happens. Indeed in the last day or two, arlied has reassigned all of my X11 bugs to nobody. I'm not exactly hopeful that they'll be fixed. Sigh.