Definition of "Stable Enough To Release" for 8.2.0

[Richard A. Smith]

Gary C Martin wrote:

Pushing the back to devel@

> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:37, Richard A. Smith wrote: 
>> These 2 are going to be really hard to quantify in hard yes or no terms.
>>  We can't reproduce the problem with any regularity.  Without a
>> repeatable method of causing the various failure modes the best we can
>> get is the overall feeling of "goodness" from the testers.
> 
> Just a +'ve anecdote, but Re: my 'Jumpy touch pad observation' email 
> back on the 11th July, I've not had a new case where the cursor has been 
> unusable and then not correctly reset after leaving the pad alone for 3+ 
> seconds (hence me not sending you any logs).
> 
> It does feel like the pad reset gets triggered more frequently than I'd 
> expect (plenty of >100px jump detected in /var/log/messages), but I 
> can't say if the frequent resets happen for the right reasons or just 
> particularly quick finger movements.

Thats good news.  Perhaps the >100 timeframe is a bit too loose.

deepak/dilinger:  Are these thresholds user tweakable?  If not can they be?

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Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
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