Suggestion: clarify on the wiki that Mir/XMir testing might imply some risks.

[Mario Rugiero]

I checked before sending the mail. The link you provided is actually more
than enough (of course, provided there is already a warning before
installing pre-releases about knowing how to recover if something goes
wrong), IMO, but when I said wiki I was wrong, I meant this other page
http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/, which was the one I checked.

Thanks and sorry for my confusion.
Mario.


2013/8/24 Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn at canonical.com>

> fwiw, we have tried to do a bit better job of highlighting some of the
> known issues.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Installing
> br,kg
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Daniel van Vugt <
> daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Mario,
>>
>> Any documentation which asks you to use any PPA should also come with a
>> warning: "This may break your system and you need to be knowledgeable
>> enough to fix it if that happens."
>>
>> Though, Mir no longer requires PPAs.
>>
>> One could also argue such warnings should be in place for anyone who
>> installs a pre-release of Ubuntu. I think it would make sense... We get a
>> lot of bugs from people testing pre-release code but don't know how to
>> recover from problems when they find them.
>>
>> Thirdly, yes, if you need to follow any instructions from a Wiki to
>> install something then that probably also indicates it's not ready for
>> prime time and should have warnings.
>>
>> I agree we need more warnings, in multiple places.
>>
>> - Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24/08/13 01:12, Mario Rugiero wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, my name is Mario Rugiero, I've been following the mail list since
>>> one or two months ago, I think.
>>> As the subject says, I think it would be wise to put a statement about
>>> testing Mir/XMir right now, since Ubuntu is also aimed to common folks
>>> that might not know software in development might contain bugs of
>>> varying severity.
>>> What I thought was just adding on the main Mir page such fact, and
>>> pointing to the bug tracker (I see there is a link on the page, but it
>>> only suggests to file the ones they find, not to check for which bugs
>>> are already known) so novice testers may know which kind of things to
>>> expect, and make and informed decision. Just an idea.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time.
>>> Mario.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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