People who think there should be zero regressions are welcome to donate the necessary time and financial resources to make it happen.
Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Pedro, > > On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 11:46 +0000, Pedro Lino wrote: >> This isn't simply a matter of checking and reporting bugs. It involves >> the Quality of a product this Community claims to be Enterprise ready. >> IMO there can be NO regressions. > Having no regressions is really a feature. That makes it rather > incompatible with a time-based release schedule. It is also a highly > expensive feature, and it is unclear who is going to do the work fixing > every regression in 3.4.x, particularly as the majority of dev. work has > switched focus to improving 3.5.x, and particularly since many bugs can > be classed as regressions if we try hard :-) > > I agree with you that the claim of "Enterprise ready" is perhaps > somewhat misleading and IMHO rather unhelpful. LibreOffice is not > Enterprise ready without enterprise support (which is capable of fixing > any regressions or issues a customer may experience). No matter how good > the job we do, customers will always find more bugs they need fixing, > regression or not. > >> The TDF BoD and the Devs need to make a decision about how to handle this. > I would recommend sticking to our time-based release schedule - there > are rather a number of nice bug fixes in 3.4.5 as it is, I've been > watching a few longer standing issues get nailed there. > > Having said all that, I don't see that 3.4.5 has to be the last release > in that series. I anticipate that people will still continue to merge > critical and/or obviously correct fixes and/or security fixes to the > libreoffice-3-4 branch, and we may have a 3.4.6 at some stage. We had a > particularly long 3.5 development cycle, so ... > > Of course, if some enterprise wants to support 3.4.x and continue > porting fixes to it & releasing they are of course most welcome to do > that indefinitely. > > What we need to do about the 3.3.x bugs, I don't know. If we have no > resources to re-test them vs. 3.4 - I would suggest we wait until we > have a good 3.5 beta to point at, and close them all with a comment > asking users to reproduce them in 3.5 and re-open/re-target them at that > version. But perhaps that is too harsh ? :-) either way, leaving bugs > malingering vs. 3.3.x while knowing full well that they'll be hidden vs. > that version is not so useful I think. > > At least, that's my take :-) > > HTH, > > Michael. > Disclaimer: http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html
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