Releasing with a known broken kernel

[Alexander Skwar]

· Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de>:
> Alexander Skwar wrote the following on 13.08.2006 19:03:

>> What's more offensive: Asking a question the way I did
>> it or doing nothing (as it seems), although it's known
>> that many people will get problems, if nothing is done?
>> Now, don't make the failure to assume, that I'm talking
>> about my problems - I'm not. I stay with kernel -25 until
>> a useable kernel is released. I'm affraid, that Ubuntu
>> will be unuseable for many people, because of the wrong
>> choice to use -26 as the kernel on 6.06.1.
> 
> Well i understand your disappointment. And although this situation
> shouldn´t be there it happend (developers are in the end humans, too) i
> am sure this will get sorted out.

How? 6.06.2 will be released? Remember, in the worst case, 
users cannot even boot, so updating after installation becomes
somewhat hard... And even if booting works, because of the 
sound problems, VIA sound users will have the impression that
Ubuntu is broken, as they don't get past the login screen -
they could, of course, change to text console, login and
kill esd. But that sort of knowledge cannot or shouldn't be
expected.

IMO, 6.06.1 shouldn't have been released with the -26 kernel.
Especially, with these kinds of problems.

> IMHO the fastest way to solve this issue is to ping someone on
> #ubuntu-bugs or #ubuntu-motu and point them to the bugreport.

Ubuntu Devs know about the bugreports. It's their duty, to care about
it. I made already enough noise on this list (in this thread and in the
"ubuntu 6.06.1 released" thread).

And thanks to your addition to the bugreport, they are "awake"
now. Which is, of course, too late.

Yes, I am quite disappointed by the way this bug got handled.

Alexander Skwar
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