Harald Sitter <[email protected]> wrote: >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. > >> 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? > >>> >>>> 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? > >>>> 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.
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