Re: Call for upgrade testing
I'm currently busy figuring out which reports still matter (i.e. which
ones are still relevant and still cause problems). Do we close the
reports/bugs or not?
Andrew Donnellan
On 5/16/05, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Well, with security support in place for sarge we hoped to be sending
> this message out a week or so ago, but it took longer than expected to
> sort out one particularly hairy bug that was known to affect upgrades.
> Now that it's fixed in testing and we can accept upgrade reports without
> trying to filter out the noise from that bug, the release team is happy
> to issue this official call for upgrade testers for sarge.
>
> As in releases past, we strongly recommend that you read the release
> notes before upgrading, and in particular Chapter 4, "Upgrades from
> previous releases", since some aspects of the recommended upgrade path
> have changed. The preliminary release notes for sarge can be found at
> <http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/releasenotes>.
>
> Andreas Barth has prepared an upgrade report template to help when
> reporting problems with your upgrades. If you do run into problems when
> testing the upgrade path from woody to sarge, please download the
> template at <http://release.debian.org/upgrade-report.html>, fill it
> out, and email it to submit@bugs.debian.org. We also welcome reports of
> successful upgrades, short notes to let us know things are working for
> you, or tasteful fruit baskets.
>
> We mentioned in the freeze announcement[1] that we needed volunteers to
> help with processing upgrade reports -- taking them apart, identifying
> the bugs that appear, and assigning them to the packages responsible so
> that they can get fixed for sarge. Our call for volunteers got us a
> total of, uh... one person offering to help, so we could probably use
> more. :) If you are an experienced user who is good at figuring out who
> to blame when things break, and you have some time you'd be willing to
> spend helping make sarge the best Debian release ever, please contact
> debian-release@lists.debian.org. We'll be happy to put you to work.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Steve Langasek [vorlon@debian.org]
> Debian Release Team
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00001.html
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