On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:06:13PM -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I think that is a good idea with regard to a lot of feature
> adjustments, and especially the SVG one. It would be useful to blog
> or wiki both a view of how it is brought along and a view of how folks
> can participate in confirming the operation of features and other
> changes in these early technology builds.
>
> Are bug reports going to be accepted against nightlies and
> technology/developer builds that are now being made available to those
> who know where to find them? There are the builds that Ariel has made
> and there are the builds that Raphael makes available as well.
>
> If so, how will they be identified? One suggestion is to use the
> latest SVN update number applicable to the working copy when the build
> was made. That seems like a simple enough procedure. There are
> recommendations for additional details (such as a build date), but
> anything that gets us a non-decreasing unique identifier between
> builds will work.
>
> For us to handle the QA, there needs to be some kind of scheme for
> this. It is also important to not expect folks to keep retesting the
> same things when there is no change to them, so something helpful is
> needed for that too.
>
> - Dennis
>
> [Anecdotal experience: When I noticed an early beta of LO 3.4.0,
> I tried it. When I noticed betas coming out at weekly intervals
> I threw my hands up and stopped testing altogether. Oddly, with AOO
> nightlies and individual committer builds being made available,
> I don't mind so much, knowing that I will simply be behind and whether
> it is wasted or not depends on whether somebody else noticed and it
> was fixed already. I could apply that attitude to LO 3.5 and WLO
> 3.3.1 but I am already running on overwhelm with AOO and it gets my
> first priority.]
This discussion is pointless in the current situation where the
buildboot only builds deb packages for x86-64, that by the way cannot be
installed on Debian; and these build do not offer all the functionality
(the don't enable category b).
Regards
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Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina
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