Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/09/2011 07:34 PM, Alexandre Strube wrote: A bit more care before committing might help? Since a long time, Ubuntu has very good virtualization features: - KVM (my favorite) - VirtualBox - I suggest you use the last stable version as physical host and virtualize you Alpha/Beta over

A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Alexandre Strube
Just that I haven't had an usable desktop for weeks on this latest beta. While I generally agree that some things might break, to have a constant broken state of everything does not help much. A bit more care before committing might help? -- [] Alexandre Strube su...@ubuntu.com --

Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Kyrillos Mossad
Realize that you're talking about a BETA, this comes with the territory of trying new things. Beta's are for people to contribute useful information not complain. If you want some nearly bug free then please revert back to a stable version On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Alexandre Strube

Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 9 August 2011 12:44, Kyrillos Mossad kmos...@gmail.com wrote: Realize that you're talking about a BETA, this comes with the territory of trying new things. Beta's are for people to contribute useful information not complain. If you want some nearly bug free then please revert back to a

Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Dan Chen
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:34, Alexandre Strube su...@surak.eti.br wrote: Just that I haven't had an usable desktop for weeks on this latest beta. While I generally agree that some things might break, to have a constant broken state of everything does not help much. A bit more care before

Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Alexandre Strube
Oh I have been doing bug reports when I can. At least 12 from july until today. Problem is, for instance, the one shared more actively on forums than on launchpad, where lightdm just breaks after receiving login credentials, staying with the X server's null cursor right over the VTs. I cannot

Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Dan Chen
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 13:18, Alexandre Strube su...@surak.eti.br wrote: And if it is a bug that happens in several cases - that means the developer just threw an update for the sake of it with little testing. Since you attest to being a developer, you likely have a good idea that in the realm

Re: A little care on new commits?

2011-08-09 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/09/2011 08:18 PM, Alexandre Strube wrote: Problem is, for instance, the one shared more actively on forums than on launchpad, where lightdm just breaks after receiving login credentials, staying with the X server's null cursor right over the VTs. I also encouter that problem on Oneiric.