Was feisty really ready to release ?

[Wolfgang]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just wondering. After see so much emails on the list about feisty's
> problem, I wonder if it was really ready.
> 
> On the other hand, even if feisty was postpone, it would have been the
> same result. People don't participate much in the test/bug report. So we
> end up with a system with few hardware support.
> 
> What should be the best attitude ? Release it and then fix people bugs,
> find workaround for them ? Or find a way to make more and more people
> test the distribution before releasing it ?
> 
> Another problem is most of common users are afraid about reporting some
> bugs (just the idea of doing it seems complicated ) . Is there something
> to do about it ? (Apport is a great tool for that but maybe redirecting
> the user to launchpad is a bit much. )
> Maybe we should think about a translation system on bug reporting, so
> that even people not speaking english but willing to help by reporting
> bugs would participate.
> 
> Anyway, for all subscribers of this ML, don't hesitate about reporting
> bugs. Anytime you need a workaround for a situation, report a bug with
> it so that Ubuntu can better fits your needs.
> 
> wattazoum
> 
> 

I just bought a new computer and my last linux experiences were about 2 
years ago. I've chosen finally ubuntu fesity because in debian there 
were strange things going on with my graphics card (some packages did 
not fit to the kernel). I've also figured out some bug within the pre 
release 2.6.19.x kernel when I remember right. But as I'm quite new to 
linux again I was not completely sure if that was really a bug or I'm 
only too stupid using ubuntu correctly. One further thing is that (as 
me) many others mix up self compiled packages with ones installed from 
synaptics and therefore are not sure about the source of possible bugs. 
  So before I report a false positive bug I just keep quiet and wait for 
the next update. Everything will be fine by then.

regards
wolfgang