On 01.06.2007 16:01, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > [...] > Anybody being intimate with a SW probably is able to provide a case to > expose a bug - So, what kind of additional quality would "testing" > provide? I don't see any. * different users use software differently and thus hit different bugs * some bugs might be arch specific -- I assume only a few of our packagers have access to all the archs we support to test their packages (especially when soon more arch come into the mix, which looks likely) * some (¹) packagers test (²) a update only on one distribution and build the software for different distributions -- there is a chance that a bug happens only on one, but not on the others CU knurd (¹) -- I know from some, but assume it are more than just a few (²) -- I know of some occurrences where packagers only testbuild a software and just shipped it as a update if the build went fine -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly