Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread teo teo
This conversation is hilarious. People in a team that calls itself the "Quality Assurance" team, debating how (or whether?) to link bugs to the 100papercuts project, and in the meantime thousands of people are upgrading Ubuntu to a new release which apparently will just brick their computer

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Brian Murray
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 05:45:35PM +0100, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: > On 26/04/16 17:01, Brian Murray wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:50:09PM +0100, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: > >>On 26/04/16 15:36, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > >>>... > >>No. > >> > >>This is not about bug importance at

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread flocculant
On 26/04/16 20:19, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Flocculant: our tracker isn't able to differentiate between packages/projects on a bug afaik. If you search for bugs in Ubuntu, the only settings Launchpad will take into account are those in the package itself. The settings in the papercuts

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread flocculant
On 26/04/16 17:01, Brian Murray wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:50:09PM +0100, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 26/04/16 15:36, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: ... No. This is not about bug importance at all. That is a different issue. What I am saying is that adding HundredPaperCuts - then

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Brian Murray
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:50:09PM +0100, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: > On 26/04/16 15:36, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > >Flocculant: > >>Is this why you have never responded to Xubuntu bugs? > > > >Yes, as I informed Pasi Lallinaho. > > > > > >Flocculant: > >> We track bug status - and as the

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto Salvia Novella: Do you mean papercuts could be better tracked using a tag? There is a problem with that. One purpose of the papercuts project is to train incomers in quality assurance. And having a separate project for that allows people setting bug statuses and importances without

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread flocculant
On 26/04/16 16:35, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Flocculant: > Why add HundredPaperCuts in the first place? Do you mean papercuts could be better tracked using a tag? Perhaps - not sure how that would affect that project though. My interest here lies in the issue it causes us when it's

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: > Why add HundredPaperCuts in the first place? Do you mean papercuts could be better tracked using a tag? -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread flocculant
On 26/04/16 15:36, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Flocculant: Is this why you have never responded to Xubuntu bugs? Yes, as I informed Pasi Lallinaho. Flocculant: > We track bug status - and as the Hundred status never changes this > causes us problems. Setting importance is not because the

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: Is this why you have never responded to Xubuntu bugs? Yes, as I informed Pasi Lallinaho. Flocculant: > We track bug status - and as the Hundred status never changes this > causes us problems. Setting importance is not because the Papercuts project, but for debugging Ubuntu

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread flocculant
On 26/04/16 14:21, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Brian Murray: I'd comment in the bug but since you aren't subscribed to it. Thanks Brian. I work in thousands of bug reports, so I do not usually subscribe to them because my email will be flooded by tons of messages from them. ... Is