On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:26:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 21:06 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : > > As I've understood it so far, testing is for 'people trying to help the > > developers by testing the software prior to release'. If too much of > > testing becomes _either_ unusable _or_ unavailable, it won't be possible > > to use it for testing and evaluation.
> Except during freeze phases, you won’t help developers much by reporting > issues on a testing system, unfortunately. A very large portion of these > bugs are already fixed in unstable and this is merely causing noise. > There are better reasons to use testing. If you want to help us, just > use unstable instead. If one is following reasonable bug reporting procedures and checking for existing bugs (incl. recently closed bugs) before filing new bug reports, then it's great to get feedback from users of testing who wouldn't otherwise be running unstable anyway. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
