Re: testing and no release schedule
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:09:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>...
> > > we thought a hundred RC bugs was almost impossible to manage; and weren't
> > > even trying to ensure absolutely everything had its dependencies met,
> > > let alone its build-dependencies.
> > AFAIR, in potato on i386 all dependencies were met,
>
> AFAICS you recall incorrectly.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2001/debian-devel-announce-200102/msg00002.html
>
> ...indicates there were 8 i386 packages in potato when it was stable that
> were uninstallable (which only considers dependencies, not recommendations
> nor priorities); and 442 packages all up. That compares to woody at the
> moment, with 16 such packages on i386, and 225 in total across the same
> architectures. There were approximately twice as many packages in total
> on each of those architectures (my scripts haven't been generating stats
> for the other architectures) in woody compared to potato.
>...
Sorry, I stand corrected.
I forgot that the usual pcmcia-modules mess was already present in
potato...
> > In big commercial project, you typically denote a forth or even half of
> > the development time for testing [1].
>
> We do testing concurrently with development. How many developers aren't
> running testing or unstable systems full time?
>...
Testing during development is definitely not a bad thing.
But it's not a complete replacement for a thorough testing of the whole
result.
> How many users are running
> testing or unstable systems in mission critical roles?
Hopefully none...
> Cheers,
> aj
cu
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