Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

[teo teo]

This conversation is hilarious.

People in a team that calls itself the "Quality Assurance" team, debating
how (or whether?) to link bugs to the 100papercuts project, and in the
meantime thousands of people are upgrading Ubuntu to a new release which
apparently will just brick their computer because it wasn't seriously
tested before being released.
And that having been known for days, while the bug causing that is still
being fixed (or just figured out), not only the release hasn't been
withheld, but no workaround (which apparently exists) has even been posted
to the bug report about the issue causing the disaster (which would be of
little help but would at least be something).

Excellent "quality assurance" effort.

I correct myself: this *would be* hilarious, if it wasn't sad.


On 27/04/16 02:18, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Flocculant:
>> So I assume you're going to stop addin 100papercuts to these bug reports
>> now then.
>
> You have not gave any reason to do so.
>
> One Hundred Papercuts was started by Canonical itself, it has 50 active
> members who renewed their membership in the past year, it is used yearly
> in Google Code-In training new contributors among thousands of students,
> and it is a test bed for new quality assurance processes.
>
> Moreover its logo inspires the Ubuntu wallpaper, the Ubuntu phone cage,
> the LibreOffice launch screen, and plenty of Ubuntu social media
marketing.
>
> So it proves to be an inspiring and useful project. And the secret
> flavour for it is having been build along with the community.
>
> We even wrote
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts/Mission)
> collaboratively. And even when we have a suggested triaging process and
> a goal, I consider crucial people to do the things on their style and
> have space to experiment.
>
> When people start telling others about stopping collaborating, staying
> the same old way (they have set themselves), thinks requiring to be
> super perfect to be implemented (and never reaching that level), and
> effectively putting all decisions on a few, that my friend causes me a
> great feeling of rejection. Not because of me, but rather because of
> others probably quitting contributing to the project I made my standard.
>