2009/1/31 Eli Wapniarski <eli@orbsky.homelinux.org>
I was thinking the same thing myself. But, I only have resources to be able to
test things on Fedora version I currently have installed on my computer. And

This is not such an issue as mock can build packages for multiple versions of Fedora on the same machine. Thats what i do quite successfully. As for other architectures koji can build on all the available versions and architectures that Fedora supports.
 
even if I did have the resources to test on 5 different platforms plus 3
others in developemnt,

Most of the rest of us dont have machines for all the versions and platforms available. We test what we can and the rest we have to rely on feedback.
 
I'm not really sure that I would have the time to reliably do the qa needed to ensure everything is working as development progresses.

Time is indeed  the biggest issue. The good news is most of the simpler packages are quite easy to package once and then just occasionally do fixes, updates or rebuilds to cope with incompatibilities/upstream updates. Good thing with plasma applets are they are for the most part not required by other parts of the system so failure in an applet should only affect the applet itself.
 
[...]


--
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't...