Hi,

After listening to the Fedora.Next discussion @ FOSDEM2014 I have been looking forward to a more stable Fedora workstation that we can actually use reliably.

I've read up about it and it would be nice to have working development tools but one of the things I haven't heard people talking about is how Fedora.next will enable people to actually use it for work.

Currently I have been bit by removal of the bluetooth HSP/HFP Profile (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045548). I just purchased all new plantronics headsets for our developers that used to work perfectly in Fedora 18 and now I can just throw them away.

Answers like these make me wonder if running Fedora will be sustainable, we have to work on these systems and if I have to dual boot Windows to make a skype call; it would be better to run ubuntu.


From: Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RFC - Downgrade BlueZ to v4.101 in Fedora 20
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Date: 2014-01-23 23:16:09 GMT (10 weeks, 3 days, 10 hours and 37 minutes ago)

On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 16:56 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> > As a side note, it also needs to be discussed how such a key feature of
> > the bluetooth stack could go unnoticed through QA, and how to avoid this
> > from happening again.
> 
> Indeed.  I wondered the same myself.

I'm somewhat cheered that our product has apparently reached the quality
level where people consider a Bluetooth audio profile to be a 'key
feature', but so far as our QA standards are concerned, it ain't.

This didn't really 'pass unnoticed' through QA. I noticed it, and was
supremely unconcerned. Yes, if you depend on this specific feature it
sucks, but it's hardly unusual for some specific feature of something or
other to break between Fedora releases. It's a thing that happens, and
as I'm on record as arguing in more extensive and generic terms, the
nature of Fedora as a project would need to change quite a lot before we
decided we were a project where stuff like this didn't sometimes break.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey

I don't want to be bashing anyone and we would like to help out with Fedora workstation testing things through. But is there any point in investing a lot of time when the QA people don't care about an OS that you can actually use.

Kind regards,

Jorick Astrego