Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu? [LWN.net]

Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu?

Posted Sep 10, 2011 17:45 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu? by AlexHudson
Parent article: Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu?

The current release process can imply some breakage and I don't think that is news to anyone. I assumed since you are pointing out a problem, you would have thought about some solutions or atleast interested in thinking about some and I wanted to hear those. That isn't orthogonal at all from my perspective. If you are not interested in that and this is just merely commentary, thats alright too.

You are guessing that pre-release breakage is turning off people from testing and that might well be the case but going a little bit further, have you thought about why there is pre-release breakage and what can be done to break out of that cycle? There is always a shortage of resources in people in quality assurance for distributions with a short release cycle. For instance, AutoQA could prevent a number of breakages and they have been repeatedly asking for help in writing tests. Certainly a resource shortage there.

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Remnant: A new release process for Ubuntu?

Posted Sep 15, 2011 15:35 UTC (Thu) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link]

It's a bit of a stretch to say that if someone is pointing out a problem then they have to also point out the solution.

As a long time Fedora user myself, I constantly encounter problems (certain releases were worse than others, I'm running F14 and it's doing ok). I always worry when I sit down at my computer, 10 times in 8 days, and EACH TIME there are new updates to install. What is going to break this time? I know how to fix things but I'm not interested in trying something even more temperamental than the "stable" releases. And if the only solution to my problem is to become a fedora developer or QA person, then you're saying that Fedora is only for the people who make it.