[wp-testers] Re: Zombie Couriers

[Lloyd Budd]

On 9/27/07, Travis Snoozy <ai2097 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:49:32 -0700, "Lloyd Budd"
> <lloydomattic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/27/07, wp-tester at spamex.com <wp-tester at spamex.com> wrote:
> >
> > The first rule of any practise, and particularly software development
> > is every thing has a context, and no approach is universal.
> >
> > > I apologize for ruffling feathers, but a very standard best practice
> > > is that the Golden Master is the last beta, which was the previous
> > > beta with a couple of bug fixes, which was the previous beta with a
> > > couple of bug fixes, etc. I just couldn't believe that a change of
> > > this magnitude was introduced at release time, when all previous
> > > practices pointed to a professional software development workflow.
> >
> > As has been identified a couple of times now, a release candidate with
> > this change was done a week previous.
> >
> > Further, leaving those tables would not improve the situation, only
> > masks the problem.
>
> But the point is valid; an important change like that should've been
> first, not last, to maximize testing by -not- masking the problem. My
> plugin also broke (for unrelated reasons) on RC1, when it worked with
> Beta 1-3 with no changes; I was -very- surprised when I needed to
> make a change (albeit only to my test harness).
>
> What's the bug triage system like (more socially-speaking then
> technologically)? Is there one? Are bugs (roughly) fixed in order of
> triaged priority? I notice that 2.3 shipped with 60 bugs remaining -- I
> would like to think that those 60 are some reasonable resemblance of
> the "least 60 most important things to fix."* :)
>
> Underlying that, I'd also like to think that there's a reason that
> the tables weren't dropped until RC1 -- do you (or anyone else) happen
> to know what that reason is?

The data in the tables was necessary to debug problems with migration
to the new tables.

Cheers,
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