> In other words, you're saying that because the release has > been slow in coming, and because /you/ judge that there has > not been significant progress in closing out remaining RC bugs, > you have no qualms about undermining the release process by > introducing a large number of RC bugs two days before the > scheduled release. I didn't "introduce" the bugs; I merely reported them. "Fact: There is (or appears to be) a bug in package X." Marking them "IGNORE", or if you prefer, downgrading them, is quite easy. All the bugs I reported DO require some work in order to bring the affected packages into compliance with policy, so they should be in the BTS somewhere. (They are still there, just requiring a reopen ... after the release ;) I did not judge that the release is a long way off. I just don't know when the release will be. If it were to happen in two weeks, that would be plenty of time to make the required one-line changes to the affected packages. (Note that the RM has said all along that he would release when ready, and _maybe_ things would start to look good around the first of May. But just now someone has written me to say that the release will happen tomorrow no matter what.) Impatience to release is not a virtue, in my book. I used to work in (effectively) a QA department and our most intense exercising of a product always came at the point when the designers regarded it as finished. They didn't like it either when we made the product fail. Sometimes we shipped product with known bugs; sometimes we said "Whew!, I'm glad we caught that one before it went out." Debian's policy is supposed to be that it releases when it is time. However, those who complain about bugs filed "just before the release" are presupposing that there is a deadline. Well, I can accept that there might be an unannounced deadline , but what really makes no sense is to suppress the reporting of bugs so that you can feel better about releasing by your deadline --- even though the bugs are still there! This reaction is truly irrational. But I accept that. Irrationality rules the world. -- Thomas
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