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Re: PPC

 

Le 10/16/2012 11:26 PM, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
> Well, it's been a rather roller-coaster ride.
>
> The final (unless something REALLY goes wrong tomorrow) re-spin of the
> world (all isos, everywhere) is now just starting.
>
> What is in no doubt is that from A3 onwards, things got worse..... It
> did / does seem like one step forwards, two steps backwards... 
>
> What is required is an honest 'pass' for the ppc versions, even with a
> grey bug. If at least one of the video cards can be gotten to pass,
> then a release can be made and continued bug hunting can then go on in
> the less stressful nature of having missed 2 mile stones whilst you
> good people actually found the issues out. 
>
> I'd prefer PPC to have the 12.10 releases at least there, even if it
> is not widely advertised, so that you do not have to start from
> scratch in 13.04 which I think would be much greater hurdle to over come.
>
> So, please test, try and get it to work, update both PPCFAQ [1] and
> L-PPCFAQ [2] so that there is a method for the 'die hard,
> cantancerous, bloody minded "it's not going to beat me" people' to
> follow. Please do note that the L-PPCFAQ[2] should just be a short
> area pointing people to the 'main' area [1]
>
> Not the sort of release PPC would have hoped for, but... such is life.
>
> If any one would like an A3 as a benchmark so you can pull logs for
> fails etc.. I do have them archived[3]. It is the lack of being able
> to attach the logs to the bug reports which is preventing things. I am
> constantly asked "where are the logs".. 
Do we have a list of bug reports about the PPC issues, with a list of
workaround ? We need to put them on the release notes.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne


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