On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 22:15 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
> Again, you're extrapolating way too far from a single problem case. The
> problem is simply that we have the xorg-x11-drivers metapackage which
> requires every single X driver and is in the critpath. There's various
> ways we could adjust this so it's no longer the case. It's hardly
> something that renders an entire policy invalid.
>
>> A bugfix is now being held up for almost a month just because there's no
>> proventester with the required hardware.
>
> The proventesters are not an immutable set. There's certainly people who
> have the hardware - anyone with an XO, and I see enough of them at
> FUDCons. All we need is for one of them to sign up to be a proventester.
> This isn't impossible either.
Today it's this package. Tomorrow it'll be another one. Sure we can solve
this particular problem (but it's taking WEEKS!), but why would that be the
only one?
It probably won't be. But then, if 'there might be problem cases' was a
sensible reason for refusing to implement any process, we'd never
implement any at all. There are problems with Bodhi, sometimes - should
we not have it? There are bugs in KDE packages - should we not have
them? It's just a silly assertion.
BTW, the update in question has no feedback from *anyone* yet. I'd
happily vote-by-proxy if some XO users who aren't proventesters had
posted +1s, but none have. Can anyone reading this list who has an XO
(or other Geode hardware) please test the update? Thanks.
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