2013/8/1 Harald Sitter <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Ho Wan Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2013/8/1 Harald Sitter <[email protected]>: >> If you don't care, why should we have it then? > > If we don't spend time on it and it is tested, why should we not have it? > >>>> Don't forget, we aren't exactly Lubuntu, who wants to support every >>>> single old computer. >>>> Alternate images are what Lubuntu still wants while we have already >>>> dropped it. >>>> Why should we drop alternate images if we can properly test it, as in >>>> coherence to our attitude? >>> >>> We didn't test them, that's why alternate was dropped. >> Think about this. We only have 1 tester for PowerPC. How many testers >> do we have for i386 and amd64? > > 1.5. And that 1.5 testers were kubuntu developers. Compared to ppc > which had 1 who was not a kubuntu developer. 1.5. Seriously? I disagree. For the past few months our testing base has been increasing. We have one PPC tester. Lubuntu has 4. And 1 isn't enough for anything. > >> Alternate images can have a lot of >> testers. PowerPC will have problems. > > Since no one wanted to test alternate images despite them being easy > to test but one person tests ppc despite being hard to test, doesn't > that say something about ppc? > Well, if you enable them I will test them. >>> >>>> So, what are the pros and cons of removing PowerPC image builds? >>>> >>>> Pros: >>>> >>>> Save testing time on PowerPC builds (and no need to wait for it at all >>>> before we can release betas or final releases) >>> >>> AFAIK we'd still have to wait for the other flavors and I don't think >>> we ever delayed a release for considerable amount of time because an >>> architecture that is not x86 based wasn't tested. >> Well, the only flavour who still supports PowerPC except us is >> Lubuntu, and that's because they really want to support PowerPC, and >> they actually spend time contacting release teams and testing even the >> dailies. Not in our case. > > What's the pro then? > I thought the pros are already listed by me... >>>> Don't have to rely on other testers >>> >>> If we are spending time testing while relying on other testers to test >>> then something went terribly wrong... >>> >> I am sure once we have to contact them since we aren't testing. > > 'ping, testing plz' is a substantial time investment. We can't just go and always say: "Hey Lubuntu, plz help us". They aren't being accustomed to Kubuntu, don't forget. > > HS > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
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