2588 - Journal unusable

[david at lang.hm]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Eben Eliason wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>>
>> It is likely that the regression in Journal was caused by releasing
>> sugar-toolkit without simultaneously releasing something which that
>> package interacted with.  But how is the person who gets the Joyride
>> build to know what he needs to wait for?  For "taskID=993286" ??
>
> Well, there are a few factors here:
>
> 1) Joyide is the development build stream.  It doesn't by any means
> promise stability, in general.
> 2) It's early in the release cycle, so things are even more likely to
> break in fairly big ways.
> 3) As was mentioned, a few days to a week is really quite short, all
> things considered.
>
> We don't suggest that people who depend on day to day use of their XO
> use the joyride builds all the time. However, we certainly appreciate
> everyone who does help test it, since it's clearly best to catch any
> and all regressions as early as possible, as large or small as they
> might be.  For that, I'm sure we all thank you!

when I was reporting errors a few weeks ago I got the response "we're 
early in the process, don't bother to report anything until we have it 
stabilized a bit, we'll tell you when to start testing". I asked within 
the last week or so if it was time to start testing yet and was told no.

David Lang

> Of course, writing a ticket is /always/ the correct thing to do in
> such circumstances, so that we can adequately triage the bug, and
> ensure it doesn't get lost. Even if we don't get it fixed within a day
> or two, this will ensure that it does get fixed. Thanks!
>
> - Eben
>
>
>> mikus
>>
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