Raising the bar

[Robin Laing]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 13:55 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:27 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> If you have ideas for
>>> other areas that could benefit from this kind of attention, please let
>>> us know. 
>> I can think of a number of different cross-component tests...
> 
> [...]
> 
> Yeah, this is a very nice checklist for 'basic sanity'. And any bug you
> file about a problem in one of those categories certainly qualifies as a
> 'fit and finish' issue. But as a test day topic, it might be a bit
> boring to spend the whole day testing e.g. copy-and-paste between app X
> and Y to fill a big matrix... 
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 

The point of testing is to find issues and get them fixed.  When issues 
are found but ignored because you don't run a pristine system with no 
questionable modules (closed source drivers) then it gets frustrating to 
even test.

For me, I am about to test my wife with a F11 install on her laptop.  It 
will be interesting to see.

I have three issues that I see as major problems.

3D support out of the box.  I know that this is a major issue.  For a 
home system it is a requirement.  No 3D, not use.

My own major headache is how to set up the locale to a format for all 
users across the system that works.  I tried to modify the LC_X 
variables but I started to get all kinds of error messages, (on F10) so 
I just gave up.  This is a RFE but to me it is a usability issue.

Finally as mentioned before.  Codecs.  Again the law is in the way.

I will be participating when I can.



-- 
Robin Laing