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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Critical bug, but no response!!
From:       Buchan Milne <bgmilne () cae ! co ! za>
Date:       2003-05-06 10:51:50
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Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Mon May 05, 2003 at 04:03:24PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>I think you and Warly need to come to some agreement on permissible bug
>>levels for a release, otherwise you're going to end up having too many
>>bugfix updates to do. Ideally, that would include having any "critical"
>>bugs ...
>
>
> Ummm...  I'm not fixing any of these.  To me, bugs in KDE are not
critical,
> and I don't know enough to attempt to fix them.  That's what
maintainers are
> for.  They can fix them, I'll do the rest (rebuild, test, release).
>

Well, if there are too many bugs at release time, one of two things happen:
1)Mandrake is buggy, people potentially decide to drop it for another
distro. IMHO, this is the release manager's problem to fix, so it's
Warly's problem.
2)Vince spends time updating packages provided by maintainers fixing
bugs that could have been fixed before release, this means people spend
too much time installing updates and waste too much bandwidth on
downloading them. This would be your problem.

So, that's why I say you and Warly need to come to an arrangement, and
publicise the policy on acceptable bug levels. Maybe threaten to drop
packages with too many bugs at RC1 or so (yes, even kdebase).

Buchan

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