On Mar 21, 2014 4:13 AM, "Colin Watson" <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:45:14PM -0500, Victor Thompson wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > Given the choice, which is better: to have slightly more frequent > > > breakage, but have key engineers be fresh and able to work on urgent > > > problems that come their way every so often; or to have our key > > > engineers concentrate hard every day to make sure as few regressions as > > > possible slip in, at the cost that when difficult problems show up > > > they're too tired and demotivated to deal with them properly? I'm > > > worried that risk aversion means we tend to aim for the latter. > > > > Frequent breakages that get put on a "list" while the project moves > > forward is exactly why the Terminal app had the backspace/enter > > regression for months. > > I didn't say that bugs like that should be put on the shelf and ignored. > What I said was that management should absolutely be making sure that > the right people are working on that sort of thing, but without blocking > dozens of other engineers until it's done. > > The probability of changes to the base system interfering in any > significant way with somebody's ability to sort out a core-app-level bug > like this is negligible. > > > There are two paths to take right now for the music app bug: > > 1. Wait for the upstream QtMultimedia bug to be fixed [1] > > 2. Move aggressively towards the Media Hub component with playlist support > > > > Given that the project's need to push features to the QA supported > > channel (I'm not convinced that most dogfooders are on the > > non-proposed channel anyway), I suggest we avoid the upstream battle > > and move towards integrating the Media Hub as quickly as possible. > > I hope you're not suggesting that we stop the line until media-hub is > ready. I've got no problem with the media-hub direction (indeed I > approved its feature freeze exception bug 1290360 recently); but from > the landing point of view it is a significant and large new chunk of > work. It could easily take some time to stabilise in its own right.
I'm only suggesting direction to resolve the situation at hand. I have no desire to hold the platform hostige in the meantime. Victor > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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