Better testing of tagged tars

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 15:28:35, Anke Boersma va escriure:
> This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta.  What was found
> and reported often, is regressions from say, 4.x.2 to 4.x.3.

Right, regressions are bad, we all have them, but as said, raising the flag 2 
days before the release is going to happen is most of the times too late, if 
you guys really want to help, we have to find a way to find them earlier.

Cheers,
  Albert

> Reported not in bug reports, but more a discussion on IRC, see if anyone
> was aware, sometimes ml, again, just checking if it was a known/accepted
> regression.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2013 14:37:22 Anke Boersma wrote:
> > >  any bugs found in the early tars (not build related) should
> > > 
> > > be kept quiet, until the tars are officially announced.  It is better to
> > > have final tars that have bugs that were known for a few days, than
> > > reporting.
> > 
> > What kind of bugs are you expecting to find:
> > 1) Regressions from the last RC -> escalate
> > 2) Bugs already present in the RC and reported
> > 3) Bugs already present in the RC and not reported
> > 
> > From experience of our users and their usage with bugzilla. 90 % is
> > category 2
> > (that obviously includes experienced users). Given that we release with
> > known
> > bugs (bug free software is impossible) it hardly matters whether there are
> > a
> > few more or less and it wouldn't change anything because we are post final
> > tagging (except it's a showstopper -> escalate).
> > 
> > That said: I keep to what I wrote. For me as a heavy bugzilla user (just
> > look
> > at commit-digest) getting bug reports for an unreleased version would
> > cause
> > more work and confusion. My first comment would be "this version is not
> > yet
> > released, where do you have it from? Are you sure you are running exactly
> > that
> > version?" - if I don't know the user and that he is an experienced Chakra
> > user
> > having access to pre-released packages, I have to assume he entered junk
> > which
> > happens more often than you would expect.
> > 
> > For everything else of your mail: sorry, I'm not qualified to
> > answer/comment
> > on that :-)
> > --
> > Martin Gräßlin
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