Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports
http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?ignore=sid&ignsec=on&fullcomment=on&new=7
thats a decent unoffical count...
On 30/05/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:57:52PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> >...
> > Timeline
> > --------
> >...
> > 1 June 2005
> > ~15 RC bugs (excluding security bugs)
> > 0 RC bugs not tagged "sarge"
> >...
>
> How do you measure RC bugs?
> If you only look at the output of the BTS - that's horribly wrong.
>
> Why?
>
> Because many bugs that are already fixed in sid and therefore closed are
> still present in sarge.
>
> Finding these issues is one of the prices for freezing testing
> instead of unstable [1].
>
> Since it seems noone of the release team bothered to pay this part of
> the price for the testing release process, I'm sometimes using one or
> two spare hours to go a bit through update_excuses and report half a
> dozen of such issues.
>
> Steve saw this, and before the latest release update he sent (which was
> the one before yours), he asked me in a private mail about a prediction
> how many such RC bugs I'd expect in sarge for inclusion in his release
> update.
>
> It seems my prediction about the number of such issues didn't match his
> wishes regarding the state of sarge, and he did therefore neither answer
> my email nor mention this in the release update nor does it seem he
> assigned a member of the release team to do this work properly.
>
> If you are using the testing release process, please do the work that is
> required for doing it properly.
>
> And if you'd have done it in time these issues were no longer present
> now that you announce the release date was only a few days ahead.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Andi Barth
>
> TIA
> Adrian
>
> [1] And no, version tracking in the BTS wouldn't prevent this problem.
> In my experience, there are so many of these issues reported with
> a wrong version or manually closed or even without any bug report in
> the BTS that claiming version tracking might eliminate this problem
> sounds like a bad joke.
>
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