Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion
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On 2008-06-03 22:26, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 21:06 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit :
>> As I've understood it so far, testing is for 'people trying to help the
>> developers by testing the software prior to release'. If too much of
>> testing becomes _either_ unusable _or_ unavailable, it won't be possible
>> to use it for testing and evaluation.
>
> Except during freeze phases, you won’t help developers much by reporting
> issues on a testing system, unfortunately. A very large portion of these
> bugs are already fixed in unstable and this is merely causing noise.
... after checking b.d.o of course ;-)
> There are better reasons to use testing. If you want to help us, just
> use unstable instead.
For me unstable has the decisive disadvantage that it will never become
stable. The only route to stable is via testing.
I use my computers *primarily* for my work and have to rely on them. YMMV.
Johannes
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