2006/6/3, Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, Am Samstag, den 03.06.2006, 13:17 +0200 schrieb Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen: > That seems like a bit overkill to me. A slight artwork inconsistency > is hardly a showstopper. Maybe an update in the repos, but that might > be overkill too imho... just to outline this overkill a bit, changing the gfxboot image means that the distro team has to do regression testing with *all* iso images and *all* install variants, a usual kubuntu, or ubuntu install takes 30-45min, a server install 15-30min, an edubuntu install 1-1.5h. all flavors have a desktop and an alternate CD the alternate CD has various install flavors that all need to be tested separately, all are shipped for at least 3 architectures. only for the ubuntu CD that means 18 install variants for 3 architectures, which makes 54 installs for only ubuntu. 16 variants for 3 architectures for kubuntu, which makes 48 installs for kubuntu. 3 variants for 4 architectures for ubuntu server (12 installs). 15 variants for edubuntu on 3 arches (45 installs) that makes a total of 159 test installs (and note not every developer has all 3 arches available). so if we assume an average of 1h per install, changing the gfxboot and usplash screen would burn about 160 manhours which we lose from the time we have for edgy development.</blockquote><div> Those are interesting numbers... Perhaps they should be put somewhere for referance just so people know how much effort is put into pre-release testing... Cheers, Mikkel </div></div>