Re: Bugs preventing release

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 03:26, Luis Villa wrote:
> Mike: thanks for giving some thoughts on this; they might serve as a
> useful jumping off point for discussion.
> 
> I'll take this as an excuse to dump my own thoughts. There are way, way
> more than this handful of bugs that are preventing release,
> unfortunately. There are (depending on how one wants to count) nearly
> 200 bugs of 'high' or greater priority against the GNOME core. We're
> beginning to close these at a faster rate than we had been, thanks
> mainly to wipro, but there are still tons of bugs spread all over GNOME-
> menu entries and options that don't work, trivially reproduceable
> crashes all over the place, apps that do all kinds of crazy stuff.
> 
> For a list, check out: 
> http://primates.ximian.com/~tigert?get=7a204ae4c139b5dc
> 
> And note that this count basically doesn't include keynav and
> accessability issues, nor does it include gtk issues. It /does/ include
> bugs artificially inflated to 'high' because they have patches, though.

I did a quick check at random and quite a few have been fixed in latest
packages, were compile issues or were not really bugs (eg: default
programs in nautilus)

> We've come a long, long way from where we were 2-3 months ago. What we
> have now is basically pretty usable for a lot of people; I use it every
> single day and I hope most of the people on this list do as well. But
> we've still got a long way to go and we've all got a lot of work to do
> before we can even think about encapsulating all the issues in a single
> email.
> 
> Luis
> 
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 22:09, mike wrote:
> > My thoughts are the major outstanding bugs are
> > 
> > The very annoying Background properties crash bug
> > 
> > (I basically have to clear nearly all settings in gconf-editor then I
> > can use it - but only once then it crashes again the next time)
> > 
> > Non-functional menu-editor
> > 
> > Lack of sawfish configuration tool
> > 
> > same for Startup programs
> > 
> > No UI way to define uri handlers (ftp,mail etc) ala gnome1.4
> > (if add service in mime-types is supposed to do this it crashes
> > automatically)
> > I have set it up using gconf-editor, but this is not exactly newbie
> > friendly (nice tool though)
> > 
> > 
> > gnome-keybindings crash
> > 
> > As far as I can see these are the only problems on my system (running
> > totally up to date released packages - ie: in latest on ftp site)
> > 
> > Anyone differ on this assessment?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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