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.