[mythtv] What can packagers/distro developers do to help the stability of "released" version of MythTV?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:40 pm, Blammo wrote:
> Most operate (like I did) under the "if it's not broken, don't fix it"
> mentality. Unless the bugfix is a stablity affecting one, I believe
> most people will live with it till the next "major" release resolves
> the issue.

Right - if it's a major stability affecting bug, that's the situation where I 
would consider releasing early to deal with it.

> One last thought, as to reporting bugs. Right now the "proper" method
> of doing that is somewhat obtuse. People who post "this broke" get
> told to go read a doc on troubleshooting. Those who do, and come back
> with GDB data and traces, never have any idea of that bug actually got
> "noticed" or put into the bug tracker, or whether the information they
> provided was actually useful at all.
>
> The XvMC pause-lockup issue is a good example of this. very
> repeatable. Several people reported it and posted logs, as did I.
> Nothing was acknowleged as a bug. However, it's fixed in the latest
> CVS.

Ah, but you're missing bugzilla:
http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=225

Notice that I didn't get any feedback if that was fixed or not.

Isaac