On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:37, Brad Felmey wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 22:57, Han Boetes wrote: > > > This is the deal. We make packages and you make decent bugreports or you learn > > to live with the fact cooker is broken. > > Have you thought even a little bit about how wrong this approach is? > > The only way you're going to get _good_ testing is for people to use > cooker on a regular basis. The only way they can use cooker is to _USE_ > cooker. Nobody who isn't getting paid by Mdksoft has the time to set up > a box and test stuff altruistically. There may be bugs and glitches, but > major systems need to at least work to a basic degree. > > Laurent has been known to quasi-regularly put out broken packages. > Packages of THE most common GUI in use. Not just glitches, but great, > big blowout brokenness. > > This kind of attitude toward the people who are out on the bleeding edge > of the distro will do nothing but engender bad relations with the very > folks who are, generally speaking, your most passionate advocates.
Here here!! I second that! R.Fox
