<p dir="ltr">Hello all. My name is John.</p>
<p dir="ltr">While I have been following behind the scenes stuff with Ubuntu since the beginning, it's very rare that I reply to anything on a mailing list. With that said, I have a thought or two.</p>
<p dir="ltr">First, how does *2 days* constitute a week in reference to "Bug Week?" Last time I checked, a week was 7 days, or 5 days if you were to go the work/school days route.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Second, why does bug smashing have to be limited to a "week?" Shouldn't bugs be getting smashed as soon as humanly possible, no matter when it is?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Papercuts is a good forum, but "Bug Week" sounds like cheerleaders standing on the sidelines rooting for their team when they are down by 10 points with little time left on the clock.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Something isn't right here. I will agree that the notification of the event gives little to no time for people to prepare. The organizers do use a public calendar, right? Better future planning is needed instead of scrambling at the last minute.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm not a programmer, so fixing bugs is something I can't do myself. I do however, like to test new software, break it, give the developers back the little pieces and tell them how it broke so they can fix it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Reporting bugs can be fun, albeit a bit frustrating when the app doesn't work as advertised. People get discouraged when apps don't function as intended and move on to another distro or even back to Windows.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew with my statements, but this is what I've seen here for years.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-John<br>
BaD_CrC @ Freenode<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2014 12:35 PM, "Alberto Salvia Novella" <<a href="mailto:es20490446e@gmail.com">es20490446e@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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When saying Trusty is the most <b>stable release</b> I took into
consideration it is in alpha stage, so Trusty is the most stable of
all releases in alpha stage.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, the Ubuntu <b>Bug Week</b> has been quite
unsuccessful. I thought in the worst scenario, because launching it
so soon, whe will be at least four people participating; but we just
where two. On the other hand, over a hundred bugs; so it wasn't that
bad, <b>thanks</b> to <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Echilicuil" target="_blank">Javier
P.L.</a> for being so supportive.<br>
<br>
Because of this, I want to ask people some <b>questions</b>; so
next time we do better. Please tell me the following, although the
possible answer doesn't seem relevant; so we can figure out what has
being missed in the event:<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Why</b> you choose not to participate?</li>
<li><b>What</b> will make you to participate in an event like
this?</li>
</ul>
Thank you<br>
<br>
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Alberto Salvia Novella wrote on 07/02/14 02:48:
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As said
<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html" target="_blank"><http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html></a> by Joel
Spolsky, *good software* usually takes 10 years to become well
made. And this appears the case for Ubuntu 14.04; the most stable
release of all time, as it can be seen in its Error Tracker
<a href="https://errors.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank"><https://errors.ubuntu.com/></a>.
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Unfortunately, the error tracker currently shows that Trusty (the
orange line) is the *least* stable version of Ubuntu yet. The most
stable release so far was 13.04 (the purple line).
I guess you misunderstood this because the Y axis on the graph is
unlabelled, which is itself a bug! <a href="http://launchpad.net/bugs/1237499" target="_blank"><http://launchpad.net/bugs/1237499></a>
Unfortunately we can't tell whether Trusty is better or worse than
other releases at this point of the release cycle, because data from
before last July is on an old database server and not yet migrated to
the current tracker.
I hope the Bug Weekend was a success. Perhaps for future Bug Days, you
could give more advance notice that they're happening.
Cheers
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