Comment 204 for bug 330824

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Andrius Štikonas<email address hidden> wrote:
> If everybody is using stable defaults then who will test or develop new
> software?
> Every software community must have early testers and if they report
> something it would be in the best interests of community to fix reported bug
> and if early testers are ignored, they will just stop testing which
> eventually will be very bad for Ubuntu.
>

You are correct, and these users are definitely important and
appreciated! We just must keep in mind the perspective of what we are
doing as testers, testing early software, and understand that
sometimes it IS going have issues and not to use it for production
environments or systems which need to be stable. As such it isn't
reasonable or helpful to become infuriated when such an issue is
experienced.

> No progress is being made on this bug for quite some time and it is likely
> to remain so. If nobody knows which patch introduces this bug just apply all
> diffs between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 in fs/[ext4,jbd2] to Jaunty kernel.  This is
> a huge change, but it unlikely to introduce bugs that are even half as bad
> as this one.

The problem here is that developers' time is limited. Since the issue
is already fixed, their time can be spent benefiting the most users by
working on improving things in the default feature set and future
release, especially since Jaunty is not an LTS. However of course any
contributions by community members are always welcome, including
tracking down the commit or getting out a PPA of a fixed kernel, or
providing workarounds such as Jason did which have already helped one
user on this report (thanks!).