12 May
2010
12 May
'10
10:03 a.m.
The regression fixing period is quite nice, quite a few of
regressions were fixed (maybe someone could do a nice stats based on
bugzilla?), so the teamwork really brings a lot.
De-facto, we already enhanced borders of this regfixing period to
include very important bug fixes. I would like to make it official,
however, be very careful and fix only those bugs which are less
likely to introduce a new regression. And still, regressions are the
top priority! Consider them as a blocker for coming 0.3.12 release.
It will be nice to finally start releasing without regressions, isn't
it? :)
Important note: I'm leaving for Sweden for a business trip tomorrow,
which is going to last about 5 days. I will join the IRC channel
occasionally and check emails of course, but nothing more than that.
Keep up the great work!
WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.
On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Aleksey Bragin wrote:
Hello,
as you all know we have quite a lot of regressions recently, and
recently they only add up to one another causing annoyances of
testers and developers. There is a strong need to change this
situation as soon as possible, otherwise the project's future is
undetermined.
I want to propose a step-by-step approach. Our brave testing team
has created a good overview of the most important regressions and
bugs we have so far: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Buglist .
Now, very important(!):
For the first step I would like ALL developers to drop their
current ReactOS-related work, including all work in branches or
wherever else and focus ONLY on fixing regressions from that list.
The goal is to fix all confirmed regressions that have been
introduced, starting from the most recent and going down to the
most ancient. All possible ways to remove a regression could be
used: starting from a proper fix and finishing with a total revert
or commenting out even good code.
Process coordination: feel free to commit proper fixes right away,
however as for reverts, I, and/or comittee of our core devs, would
like to have a final say on whether something should be reverted.
I repeat, all other non-regression related commits to the official
ReactOS SVN repository are forbidden, even to branches. The only
exception may be developers whose access is restricted to branches
only.
Thank you for understanding,
Aleksey Bragin.