Why everyone should test the development branch

On Mon, 2005-17-10 at 23:10 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> > including my digital camera (HP M307); worked in Hoary, doesn't work in
> > Breezy (when used as an USB disk drive)  Of course I didn't test it in
> > Breezy until tonight after the family desktop got upgraded...  I guess
> > Hoary on the 2nd HD partition will stick around for longer than
> > originally planned.
> 
> You've hit the nail on the head.  Hardware is one area where it's absolutely
> critical that users test the development branch.  There is no possible way
> that the development team can know whether your hardware stopped working in
> Breezy unless you test it and report back.

I blame all this on the laptop testing team: it has been sucking out all
my free time available for testing since the summer, keeping me away
from my home desktop computer which used to be my main testing base for
hardware :)

That camera has other hardware issues, so I cannot rule out yet that the
problem lies solely in the camera itself vs a hoary/breezy regression.
I'll test it more a file a bug early in Dapper developmental cycle if it
looks like it is a bug with Ubuntu.  


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