On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:17:01PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > 2) It is impossible to ensure that functionality will not be reduced > > > without sufficient testing. > > Your axioms are obviously wrong. An update which simply bumped a > > release number would have the same functionality. Since you claim > > these are axioms -- self-evident truths that form the basis for > > further argument, anything else you wrote is unsound. Sorry :-! > What guards you against changes in the buildroot, non-deterministic > compiler bugs, cosmic rays and the like? The point is to test the > binaries that are being pushed into the hands of the users. And note that the point says _sufficient_ testing. If the change is just a rebuild with bumped version number, sufficient testing may simply mean verifying that nothing _actually_ changed. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
