On 9/27/07, Travis Snoozy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:49:32 -0700, "Lloyd Budd" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The first rule of any practise, and particularly software development > > is every thing has a context, and no approach is universal. > > > > > I apologize for ruffling feathers, but a very standard best practice > > > is that the Golden Master is the last beta, which was the previous > > > beta with a couple of bug fixes, which was the previous beta with a > > > couple of bug fixes, etc. I just couldn't believe that a change of > > > this magnitude was introduced at release time, when all previous > > > practices pointed to a professional software development workflow. > > > > As has been identified a couple of times now, a release candidate with > > this change was done a week previous. > > > > Further, leaving those tables would not improve the situation, only > > masks the problem. > > But the point is valid; an important change like that should've been > first, not last, to maximize testing by -not- masking the problem. My > plugin also broke (for unrelated reasons) on RC1, when it worked with > Beta 1-3 with no changes; I was -very- surprised when I needed to > make a change (albeit only to my test harness). > > What's the bug triage system like (more socially-speaking then > technologically)? Is there one? Are bugs (roughly) fixed in order of > triaged priority? I notice that 2.3 shipped with 60 bugs remaining -- I > would like to think that those 60 are some reasonable resemblance of > the "least 60 most important things to fix."* :) > > Underlying that, I'd also like to think that there's a reason that > the tables weren't dropped until RC1 -- do you (or anyone else) happen > to know what that reason is?
The data in the tables was necessary to debug problems with migration to the new tables. Cheers, -- Lloyd Budd | Digital Entomologist | | Skype:foolswisdom WordPress.com | WordPress.org | Automattic.com _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
