This wasn't a proper feature freeze. Bugfixes were present, but in highly
specific areas, without the proper path:  bug reported->bug list
prioritized->tested-> passed to dev->fixed

We still suffer from system-wide regressions, heap and registry-related.

Best regards

2011/2/15 Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org>

> Yeah sure, this is quite important, however as I said, we just had a
> "natural" feature freeze when only bugfixes were committed to trunk for
> about 2 or 3 weeks, and all new features went to the branches (with some
> exceptions, but still).
> Also, patches were reviewed and committed and as for regressions, previous
> release had even more, so there is a progress and positive view of the
> newcoming release.
> Usability test is also something which our testers do all the time when
> preparing a release, this includes testing golden apps etc. Victor could
> explain more on this topic, and I would really like testers to manage this
> kind of stuff and do some minimal quality assurance.
>
> Profit! :)
>
>
> WBR,
> Aleksey.
>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Timo Kreuzer wrote:
>
>
>> I'd like to come back to this and suggest a procedure:
>>
>> 1. Officially announce feature freeze.
>> 2. Address patches in bugzilla. we have 31 patches in bugzilla and we
>> should have each of them reviewed and hopefully a lot comitted.
>> 3. Address regressions. We have 47 (!!!) bugs marked as regressions in
>> bugzilla. We should go through each of them and check if its any reasonable
>> to fix them.
>> 4. Address bugs with high severity / high priority. (5 blockers, 9
>> critical, 50 major... doh!)
>> 5. Do a "usability test". This means installing and doing the usual stuff,
>> a user would do and note all problems, annoyances. Currently ros crashes
>> very often with failed assertions and other stuff. If we ship this in a
>> release, people will be very disappointed. so we seriously need to improve
>> the situation.
>> 6. ???
>> 7. profit
>>
>> Timo
>>
>>
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