On 6 Jul 2010, at 22:31, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: >> While I'm sure we can all think of several potential >> disadvantages to closing the Solaris source again, I >> wouldn't say lack of QA would be one of them. Closed >> source, commercial software gets released all the >> time with sufficient testing, for example through >> formal beta programmes with paying customers -- very >> much like Sun used to do with Solaris, in fact. > > Sure! All bug reports submitted by users are quickly marked as duplicates of > existing bugs that have already been submitted by paying customers > participating in Beta programmes. > > Please don't insult everyone that has taken the time to submit detailed bug > reports.
If such a situation were to ever to arise, detailed bug reports are important to developers whether they're duplicates or not, and are treated as such by every project team I know of. So there would be no reason for anyone to feel insulted, or that they'd wasted their time. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
