On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 05:59:23 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Hi Kubuntu-Developers, > > please note: I'm not subscribed, please CC me in replies > > I just wanted to inform you (in case you are not yet aware of it) that we in > KWin started to receive a bunch of bug reports for Kubuntu 12.10 in the > combination with the Intel drivers since this weekend. > > The issues are: > * crashes (e.g. Bug #308369) > * performance problems (e.g. Bug #308385) > * rendering issues (e.g. Bug #308439) > > So far we do not have enough data to say whether there is a real and general > issue, but I'm concerned enough to send this mail. > > What we know is that the issues are related to Mesa 9.0 which got released > just last week. Several users told us that downgrading to Mesa 8 the > problems go away (of course not an option for Kubuntu users). > > My recommendation would be to put a word of warning into the release note. I > find the situation very difficult as I neither want you to warn about a > problem that does not exist, on the other hand I don't want users to run > into the issue and then blaming KDE for bad performance. > > Also for the next cycle I would recommend to try to increase the timespan > between Mesa driver releases and the release of Ubuntu. I don't think it's a > good idea to ship a new Mesa version before the rolling release > distributions have played guinea pig ;-)
I'm all for not breaking things. One point of clarification though ... Quantal has had git snapshots of mesa 9 since August, so it's not like they suddenly jumped all the way from 8 to 9 at the last second. Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
