Chris Lumens wrote:
I'd like to add a step (0) before we make bugs easier to file and
really
crank up the number of reports we're getting:
(0) More people FIXING the bug, not just reporting them. You can have a
giant user base of people filing tons of bugs, and you can have a
motivated and effective QA/Triaging team whittling them down to the
really important and reproducable bugs. But without more people fixing
them, the backlog is just going to continue to build.
Except for fedora-specific quirks, fixing should be an upstream issue.
What a distribution needs to know is whether upstream had a bad day or
not before pushing some drek to unsuspecting users. If you had
sufficient testing before release, or a place for user testing/reporting
before full release that can expose the fact that a particular update is
not ready for prime time just don't do that update.
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Les Mikesell
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