Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, 2008-12-26 at 00:11 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:

> > >  - Some testers wait till the RC phase before testing. I myself
> > > wait till beta, I don't consider myself hardy enough to test
> > > earlier.
> >
> > Chicken and egg problem :-) If you don't get testers earlier, you
> > don't get stability earlier.
>
> I prefer early testing (as in "beta") because this gives me a good
> chance to have most of "my" bugs fixed in the final release. If you
> start with RC, you'll have to live with most of "your" bugs until the
> next release ;-)

This round I did that, I tested earlier. And I found I could not even test 
my pet set of bugs (some several years unsolved), because I found new bugs 
that impeded me from continuing testing. When I wanted to go and test "my" 
bugs, I always found a new important bug in the way. I had to test if 
certain feature survived hibernation? Impossible, hibernation crashed. 
Wanted to test that feature in Gnome? Impossible, the machine crashes or 
locks. Even now I can not use 11.1, because it crashes, everytime.

(I had a simple bug that made me waste many dozens of hours, arguing it, 
till IBM came into the fry and turned the table round in a day. Bug 
solved).

No, factory is not for novices. I ended quite tired this round...

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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