On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Please. Let's not get into this game. I saw with my own eyes as the founder of Samba stood up at a Linux conference and harrangued another prominent Linux distro for never even testing printing in a release and letting obviously broken functionality, and the developer had no choice but to nod and acknowledge it. There was then a 20-minute discussion of QA practices in that distro, and how the chief problem was one of not having enough testers at release time.
Sure, Fedora could stand to see improved quality, as could all Linux distros. I think the proposal has merits to be debated -- but let's not pretend that this is a problem unique to Fedora, because it most assuredly is not.
--g
I've heard more than one (non-developer) utter the phrase "Fedora is the
only Linux distribution I've ever used that doesn't put any effort into
ensuring that it works".
Please. Let's not get into this game. I saw with my own eyes as the founder of Samba stood up at a Linux conference and harrangued another prominent Linux distro for never even testing printing in a release and letting obviously broken functionality, and the developer had no choice but to nod and acknowledge it. There was then a 20-minute discussion of QA practices in that distro, and how the chief problem was one of not having enough testers at release time.
Sure, Fedora could stand to see improved quality, as could all Linux distros. I think the proposal has merits to be debated -- but let's not pretend that this is a problem unique to Fedora, because it most assuredly is not.
--g
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