Those devices might never get a 2.5 update...
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De : "Augustin Trancart" <[email protected]>
Pour : <[email protected]>
Objet : 319 MB bugs and Good first bugs
Date : lun., oct. 19, 2015 11:42
There are quite a lot of 256mb phones running fxOS out there. For
example the orange kliff, that just started to sell this summer.
What prevents us to keep supporting these devices?
Augustin Trancart
Phoxygen
On 18/10/2015 01:46, Jim Porter wrote:
> On 10/16/2015 11:42 AM, Naoki Hirata wrote:
>> 1) I would like to ask that we keep 319 MB bugs open and remove the
>> 2.5?/+ markers instead of just closing the bugs out.
>> a) the context is that it's easier to keep track of the open bugs than
>> the closed bugs.
>> b) Wilfred mentioned that they shouldn't be blocking 2.5. Having said
>> that, this doesn't mean that the bugs do not still exist.
> It's not a question of whether we have time to fix these bugs or not,
> but rather a question of whether they're bugs at all. It all comes down
> to whether or not we consider 319 MB (or 256 MB, really) configs to be
> supported. If these configs aren't supported, then these aren't valid
> bugs anymore.
>
>> c) We have had history where we went back and realized that we still
>> have to resolve those 319 MB issues.
> All this means is that we can't *mass-close* bugs that were initially
> tested on a 319 MB config. I've tried to be careful when closing these
> bugs out to see if they can be reproduced on 512 MB configs. If they
> can, the bug is still valid. If they cannot, the bug has been "fixed"
> because we threw more hardware at the problem.
>
>> d) we could always go back and close the bugs off as Won't fix when we
>> officially move to 512 MB. I don't see why we're busy closing these
>> specific bugs with a claim of we don't have the time to fix them when
>> there's many more that still sit in open status that are long
>> outstanding bugs of papercuts, backlogs, polish and more that people
>> have decided not to fix because they are lesser priority.
> I can't speak for other teams, but I've been leading an effort in the
> Media team to triage *all* of our existing bugs (starting with the Music
> app), with the ultimate goal that our backlog only contains things that
> we actually want to fix. In the case of bugs that *only* happen on 319
> MB configurations, I don't think we'd ever want to fix them. They apply
> to a configuration that doesn't block 2.5 and will be even
> *less*-supported in the future, if such a thing is possible.
>
> - Jim
>
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