On 02/28/2013 02:49 PM, David Henningsson wrote: > On 02/28/2013 05:09 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: >>> * Keep doing daily quality and keep improving our daily quality. >> >> Big +1. I'm particularly looking forward to integrating our automatic >> package tests with britney. > > The QA work done in -proposed has increased the productivity for the > rest of us, no doubt about that. > > But still, a word of caution here. Every piece of code even remotely > related to the hardware, not only the Linux kernel but also most of the > plumbing layer, is quite difficult (or even impossible) to automate > testing for. Even if we would set up robots in our lab looking at the > screen for artifacts, talking into the microphone and so on, we wouldn't > cover the world's hardware. > > Hardware becomes increasingly complex, diverse, and so testing it takes > a lot of time. You can't go test thousands of machines to see if their > headphone outputs stopped working every single day. > > Do we have a plan to deal with those types of bugs?
Maybe I'm missing something, but don't we have this problem *now*, regardless of a rolling release or not? The only way to reasonably solve this is get hardware OEMs to participate, who can't even tolerate our 6 month cadence and thus do so on the LTS...which isn't changing. -- Robbie Williamson <[email protected]> robbiew[irc.freenode.net] "Don't make me angry...you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." -Bruce Banner -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
