Re: Interesting comments

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Everyone would probably agree that, if the system won't boot, that is 
> > critical. I would expect such a critical error would be a candidate 
> > release blocker.
>
> Not really. It has to be evaluated more on a case by case basis. Every 
> release of any distribution probably doesn't boot on some systems. We 
> have just way too many variety of hardware such as these to consider 
> them all as critical and solve them all. Popularity of the particular 
> hardware in question and other factors needs to be considered before 
> marking them as a blocker of any sort.

I said "candidate blocker."



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