Communicating Stability

[Matt Zimmerman]

The trouble is that this is a *lot* of information, only a small subset of
which is relevant to a particular user.

It's better to subscribe to the bugs corresponding to the problems which are
important to you, so that you're notified when they're closed.

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:50:19PM -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> I subscribe to this list, -devel-announce and others, partly in an attempt to 
> keep an eye on the progress of edgy.  I want to know when it's a good idea 
> for me, personally, to install it.  There are various thresholds of stability 
> for my laptop, my home desktop, and my workstation.  I know where those 
> thresholds are, and I've been trying to keep my finger on edgy's pulse so I'd 
> know when one of them had been crossed.
> 
> This time around, they were all crossed at the same time.  I'd been waiting 
> for nvidia driver compatibility with xorg.  I'd actually been looking for it, 
> and I didn't know about it until I googled it today, then looked to see that 
> the bug had been closed.  I doubt I was the only potential user of or 
> contributor to edgy that had been waiting for this.  The point is, it would 
> be nice to have something like a progress report on development releases.  
> These are the things that are still broken, these things are working pretty 
> well and should be stable, we're about to do something crazy with this other 
> thing, we just fixed this critical bug, etc.  I know from hanging out on irc 
> that the stability level of ubuntu+1 is a much-sought-after piece of 
> information.  The standard answer is "it's unstable - if you have to ask, 
> don't install it".
> 
> I know stability is hard to express and often hard to gauge, but I think we 
> could get a lot more ubuntu+1 users (and contributors) if information like 
> this were regularly made available.  Fancy new features might also be a 
> useful piece of information in this... document?  mailing list?  newsletter?  
> wiki page?  .plan?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rocco
> 
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