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 -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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