Il giorno lun, 25/09/2006 alle 13.42 -0700, Brad Fuller ha scritto:
> stephane ducasse wrote:
> >>> been an VM ignorant I cannot reply. Now I hope that this bug can be 
> >>> fixed for 3.9 VMs
> >>> It seems to me that from an image perspective we can safely release 
> >>> the image.
> >>> Now we should also move, so that people migrate their code on 3.9 
> >>> and that we start
> >>> on 3.10 :)
> >> Thanks for your comment, Stef. That seems reasonable. However, are 
> >> you sure that it's a VM issue? The VM crashes, but can it not be an 
> >> issue from higher up?
> >
> > Of course it can. But what can we do? do we have reproduceable bugs. I 
> > do not think so.
> The code is in the mantis defect that is 100% reproducible on my PC. I 
> think it's easy to duplicate or make other PCs crash.

I can reproduce it on my system, (Fedora Core 5, 3.9-7 vm, 3.8 image).

> > So we can stop 3.9 and postpone it but
> > I'm pretty sure it will not help.
> I think what you are saying is that 3.9 should be pushed forward because 
> there are few people to look at this problem. If this is the case, a 
> couple of comments to that:
> 
> * Tim's been assigned the defect.
> * John said he'd look at the Mac version of it.
> * what is the acceptance criteria for releasing a major version?
> 
> We don't know when Tim and John will be looking at the problem. But, 
> certainly a crash should be enough to stop and consider the release. No?

How common is this single bug? Can't we just add a remark in a "known
problems" section, and say it will be fixed as soon as possible?

	Giovanni