Comment 95 for bug 1169984

Hi. I went to raring about three weeks before release trying to help
debug. So I ran into the HDMI problem pretty much right away, and I
reported the bug ... so far so good, this is why I tried a prelease. But
the point of that is to help make the release better, and that didn't
work out, except for a line in the release note.
This was a bad bug because it affected just about everyone using Ubuntu
as a media PC (where you will find HDMI displays). How did the kernel
team not realise the severity?
I guess one problem was the report was spread over countless bugs; the
duplicate detection in bug reporting didn't work, and therefore perhaps
it wasn't obvious how many people were affected.

My USB DAC is still broken with all Raring kernels so far. This was also
a bug introduced during development, I think from selective patch
applications. That's another bug report we are still working on... but
by and large, Raring was not a great release for me. I think the Ubuntu
kernel approach is fragile ... regressions and breaks get introduced
faster than they can be triaged and fixed. Raring's kernel was not
release quality in my opinion ... the release note line about broken
HDMI audio basically proves it: Ubuntu released a kernel with a known
bug, the severity of which was either not well understood, or the
affected users were considered outside the target user-base (which I
can't believe). Either way, not very impressive. Luckily we can use
generic kernels.