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[Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Greg. I'm sort of playing "catch-up" and I'd missed this:

http://qa.ubuntu.com/2012/07/17/testing-in-cadence/

Now Nicholas, and maybe some others, are going to regret the increased oxygen flow to my brain ;^)

Nicholas (or whoever) was wrong to say, "Rather than focus on arbitrary moments in  time, we've been asked to stick to a two week cadence for testing."

There was absolutely nothing at all "arbitrary" about the previous iso-testing schedule! Testing would generally begin 3 to 5 days before each milestone and all bugs reported during that time would be answered promptly by a dev.

You'll notice I said, "answered promptly by a dev". Even if the answer was a won't fix or a bump to the next dev cycle there was some assurance that the bug had been looked at by someone capable of making a decision.

And the release cycle is based on a number of other components coming together, quite often outside projects such as Gnome. I mention Gnome here because Lubuntu is based on Ubuntu so we have little control over some of the package versions included and therefore the release cycle.

But ultimately I see "cadence testing" to be just as flawed as Evan Dandrea's assumption that eliminating the "use continuous free space" from the live CD was a good idea :^(

Testing every two weeks without factoring in various feature freezes and such is totally absurd! I'm quite sure of that!

Lance

--- On Thu, 8/9/12, Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] ISO Testing Cadence Week
To: "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Nicholas Skaggs" <nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 12:24 PM

Hey Lance, I am glad to hear you are doing better, and no worries abut the cadence testing for the i386 Lubuntu spins I will catch those this week... if the creek don't rise.. In my opinion your attention to detail and bug finding is better spent the way we are presently working. 


Lars has tested all the powerpc spins and hopefully he will be able to do the amd64+MAC stuff too. 

 I believe we have already tested the Lubuntu amd64 spins so I will have some time with my new/refurbished Lenovo T61p to work on some other spins (i386 desktop & alternates).


You just do whatever you feel you need to brother. You find things that I know I would probably overlook.   

Again I am so pleased that you are feeling and doing better.

Greg nm_geo