Karmic Koala open for development

Posted Apr 30, 2009 5:39 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
In reply to: Karmic Koala open for development by sbergman27
Parent article: Karmic Koala open for development

Okay, I discovered LP:366967 on my home system during testing 8.10->9.04 upgrade, and that's why I reported it on the weekend. Do the chances of the bug being noticed and acted upon really depend from they day it has been reported ?

Re LP:352622, is there a minimal age limit for such bugs ? How long should the bug in 'main' stay unresolved to deserve an action from Ubuntu side ?

Karmic Koala open for development

Posted Apr 30, 2009 23:02 UTC (Thu) by Yasumoto (guest, #42642) [Link]

As with most open source projects, there's a terrible ratio of bugs-reported to QA/Developers. In this case, there were a lot of high-impact bugs that were deemed higher priority in the last few weeks before the release.

The important thing to note about freezes is that they are there for a reason. If a fix/patch is "trivial" (which is a very vague term) then there should be no problems applying it. However, it is difficult to decide whether to introduce new code without giving it ample testing, since it may also include new bugs. I think it was Mark Shuttleworth that recently stated "The bug you know is better than the one you don't". There's a responsibility to the millions of users to not introduce breakage into their systems.

I know it takes a lot of work, and in an ideal world, bugs would magically get fixed, but that's not the case. If these issues are important to you, get on IRC or a mailing list and get some communication flowing.