On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 21:19 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Krzysztof, > > You've included a list of all the bugs fixed in this release, but > there's no information here about which bugs you believe warrant an SRU > or why. It's also not clear why the bugs that warrant an SRU should be > fixed by pulling a new upstream version instead of pulling a targeted > fix. Can you please elaborate? Right, I've managed to include a list of all bugs, write test cases, I've also discussed it briefly on irc with pitti but obviously has forgotten to follow it up with the rationale here. Sorry about that, it's below.
1.93 is the latest (and possibly the last) bugfix release in the 1.9x serie of Transmission. The upstream developers being aware of the release processes of Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE puts quite a lot of effort to ensure that all releases following the first are being well tested and doesn't contain new features that would make it harder to get it after Freeze. As I can see it, there are three good reasons to include 1.93 (and possibly a 1.94 if it gets released) in updates: - 1.93 is a release used by some other distributions (at least Fedora, probably OpenSUSE, maybe Red Hat?). Using same release makes it easier for both upstream and us to keep track of possible problems. - Private Tracker administrators were irritated in the past by the frequency of Transmission releases and the amount of Transmission client versions in the wild. It's hard for them to track cheaters (people who report wrong down/up ratio) and they may decide (as some of them has decided in past) to ban older 1.9x releases just to ease their work. - It would make it easier for the upstream (and me personally) to provide support for users who join #transmission and ask for help. - Users really want 1.93 in Lucid (not an argument but still.. :) ) Regression potential: - All bugs being that are being backported to the stable branch are chosen by developers based on their possible impact. 1.93 fixes few crashes that are rare, hasn't been reported on LP yet and they are not in our 1.92 release. - 1.93 has been released a month ago, it got moved to Fedora 13 shortly and got quite a lot of testing from both Fedora users and those who download it directly. status new -- Krzysztof Klimonda <[email protected]> ** Changed in: transmission (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New -- Update transmission to 1.93 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
