Re: [ubuntu-x] State of X for quantal

2012-10-09 Thread Chase Douglas
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:51:33AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: >> To be honest, the stack corruption issue has always been a "potential" >> issue. It's hard to say whether the issue was the real cause of bugs >> or not, but it could be. I d

Re: [ubuntu-x] State of X for quantal

2012-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:51:33AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > To be honest, the stack corruption issue has always been a "potential" > issue. It's hard to say whether the issue was the real cause of bugs > or not, but it could be. I don't have any proof either way. > > The current X server in q

Re: [ubuntu-x] State of X for quantal

2012-10-06 Thread Chase Douglas
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > 3. xorg-server > > It seems like we have a lot more Xserver crashes than usual. However, > I think this is because of the improvements RAOF made to the apport > crash catching tool to catch crashes more reliably. > > A number of the cras

[ubuntu-x] State of X for quantal

2012-10-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
We're nearing the release date for 12.10. The bug situation looks pretty good quantitatively compared with previous cycles; we have just over 100 bug reports needing some action or other by us, versus normally several hundred at this point in the release cycle. I'm going to be shifting focus away