no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>>
>>> Yes, my indictment earlier was for *all* distributions of Linux.
>>> But Legacy has gone further than I can follow along, that's all.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are merely discussing a proposal so legacy process hasnt gone further 
>
>
> That is not my understanding.
>
>> at all. You also state that other distributions QA process is better. 
>
>
> Other distros do have better QA, as Red Hat itself says about FCx.
> RHEL has, per Red Hat, better QA than FC.

Comparing a commercial product to a community project is unfair. Lets 
hear about QA processes documented in other community projects.

>
>> How do we know?. If they are better are you willing to get involved in 
>
>
> Well, I guess that Red Hat could be mistaken or misleading about
> its own products and projects, but I doubt that.

See above.

>
>> QA with the legacy project to help it be better?.  Thats what we 
>> need. More contributors working on it. Other discussions is just fluff.
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>
> No, I am not.
>
> I sent out an e-mail some weeks ago suggesting that if
> there were an easy way for me to test without endangering the stability
> of my system, then I'd be willing to do some QA testing. The silence
> in response to that message was completely deafening. It got not
> even one reply. I saw recently some things about using VmWare perhaps
> allowing one to do testing in a protected environment, but no one
> really seems interested in following up on that.
>
> So, while there is no backout procedure for the testing packages,
> I am unwilling to do any testing.

See the other mails regarding this.

-- 
Rahul 

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