On Mon, 19 May 2008, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > ". If you are a Fedora fan, but would prefer your Linux desktop to have > > fewer experimental software packages, you might want to postpone the upgrade > > for a month or two, or investigate one of the distributions with a policy of > > shipping stable and well-tested software only." > > > > ... implies we don't test our packages. If you agree with analysis, fine but > > I do think our choices can be explained further. > > To be perfectly honest, I *do* agree with the analysis. I think that > comprehensive testing, right now, is the biggest weakness we have. Some of > the bugs we shipped with are pretty ugly. > > My current circumstance is a great example. > > I'm writing this from an F9 USB key I burned using Luke's Windows USB tool on > my mother-in-law's Windows computer. Excellent! > > But I'm using it because when I upgraded to F9 and then tried to use > hibernate, it bricked my laptop. Bummer! > > Some of these bugs could have been found with simple test suites -- but we > haven't managed to get that work done. It's a real problem. > Side note about this... Does anyone know if we have a public list of what our test matrix is? I'd be happy to test and sign off on some things but I don't know what we do to test. -Mike -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
