ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.09.2015 21:15, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Am Montag, den 21.09.2015, 15:48 -0300 schrieb Renato Filho:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> We are about to land a new architecture for our contact sync. And it
>> involves a lot of changes on the current service. Because of that we
>> would like some help from our community to help us testing it before
>> it lands.
> 
> so this is the third time somebody sends a "call for testing" mail to
> the public ML without any warning. 
> 
> can we pretty please make sure there is a gigantic red blinking
> disclaimer at the top of such mails that your phone *needs* to be
> re-flashed cleanly after such a test *and* that the writability needs to
> be reverted manually (a --wipe flash will *not* unset it, you need to
> --bootstrap or manually remove the writable flag on disk). this is a
> general support list, so we have normal users.
> while i agree we need to get some real-life testing from willing people
> we really need to make sure they understand the risks, using the citrain
> tool or installing silo packages manually breaks any possible upgrade
> path, a clean re-flash is unavoidable after such a test run ...

How about adding that warning to the citrain tool instead, or any other
tool that breaks upgrades?

> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
> 
>

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