[om-qa] Go/NoGo vote and meeting for .iso's 130/131

luca pedrielli luca.pedrielli at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 05:33:34 EDT 2016


Hi Cristina,
thanks for your comments well described
sometimes, because my not good English, I can seem grumpy;-)

I just wanted to highlight the importance of vbox as a test machine.
more than 90% of new/old/curious users will test the beta in vbox.

so the expression "vbox issue" should be avoided .... especially as an 
excuse.



Il 03/04/2016 11:00, rugyada ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
>
>> blocker for me:
>>
>> - i586 version doesn't boot in vbox and in hardware.
>> - install dkms modules requires wrong kernel
>> - plymouth doesn't work(in hardware and in vbox certenly). and as a beta
>> will be tested 95% in vbox, this will be a very bad impression
>>
>
>
> Main concern for me is
>
>> - install dkms modules requires wrong kernel
> It has been repeatedly reported, for around one week at least. Issues
> don't fix them miraculously by themselves nor disappear the same way.
> We can live with postponing beta release one week if needed to take
> the time for fixing, imho.
>
>
> As for:
>
>> - plymouth doesn't work
> Plymouth doesn't work since  0.8 -> 0.9.
> It was "archived" as a vbox issue -which is not, sorry to say and easy
> to verify.
> https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874
>
> As plymouth issue is not going to be fixed in 2 days, our workaround
> is to remove it (temporarily): boot in text mode.
> You must know that the first impression counts a lot.
> Plymouth is the first thing we see while booting a system and it's
> broken?? Wow! eager to see the rest then... :/
> Believe me, it would not be the best introduction, which all your hard
> work deserves!
>
>
>> - i586 version not booting
> What about release x86_64 iso only?
> In the ideal world we promised x86_64 and i586 so we provide them. In
> our world we are too few people to support a lot of things, at a
> certain point one need to make choices.
>
> Survey re i586 support is nearly one year old
> https://blog.openmandriva.org/2015/06/i586-we-follow-your-say
> "[...]In 1 year we will have another same poll and see how things go[...]"
> I request not to have the poll and drop i586. Unless people voting for
> yes are ready to join and provide productive contribution.
>
> In my opinion, I'd rather focus more on KDE4 release. That is support
> OMLx2 x86_64 and OMLx3 x86_64.
>
>
> Disclaimer:
> Please take all this not as criticism or complaint, towards anyone.
> Please see it just as point of view trying to help.
> I do know that things need time and work, I'm humbly among people who
> make their best to contribute.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
>


-- 
Saluti, Luca Pedrielli




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