Re: Bugs preventing release

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

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.

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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