Matt, I appreciate your response as well and understand where you are coming from. I have to make these inquiries as part of carrying out my job. I need gauge the risks in depending an open source solution, whether it's Couch or MongoDB. I have great respect for all the developers that contribute to open source endeavors.
Best regards, Jason On Feb 18, 2014, at 12:42 PM, matt j. sorenson <m...@sorensonbros.net> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jason Winshell <jas...@bearriver.com>wrote: > >> Jens, >> >> Thanks for the speedy response. I certainly appreciate the low-bandwidth >> situation of the folks who generously contribute their time. Nonetheless, >> IE is the browser used by government and many corporations. This is not a >> matter of what browser is better than another. It's just a fact of life. I >> as a contractor, don't get to dictate the tools used in those environments. >> IT staff, like database administrators are absolutely not going to use curl >> (assuming it's even allowed to be installed on machines) to manage a >> database. CouchDB has to have >> > > Got to cut you off there... open source projects don't *have* to do > anything the project's community doesn't elect to do, they don't even have > to continue existing. If making bizarre urgent demands of technology is > how government contracting has conditioned you to cope with problems, there > are plenty of commercial database alternatives who'd no doubt appreciate > your dollars. > > >> I'm curious as to what the QA process is for posting official releases. >> What is the test regression process? >> > > Here's where you can help - earlier in the thread I alluded to just one of > many possible ways that QA could be improved to alleviate cross-browser > woes, but it doesn't automagically happen. If you want to see improvements, > stop waxing pathetic about /gub'ment this/ and /draconian IT that/... and > instead resolve to contribute. > > > > > DISCLAIMER: All positions and opinions expressed here-in are Matt's and > Matt's alone, and may not represent the CouchDB project, it's committers, > or it's sponsors. > > --matt
