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Nikolay Vladimirov nikolay at vladimiroff.com
Wed Dec 3 09:16:29 UTC 2008


2008/12/3 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
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> Le Mer 3 décembre 2008 08:57, Nikolay Vladimirov a écrit :
>
>> The point of rawhide is to be broken :).
>
> No it isn't. The point of rawhide is to get different development
> tracks in sync, in a non-broken state that can be QAed.
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>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
>Le Mer 3 décembre 2008 09:42, Nikolay Vladimirov a écrit :
> You're right. This statement was intended to be humorous, reflecting
> on the general case that there is always something not working as it
> should(or as you expect it) .

2008/12/3 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
>Such statements are dangerous because they lower tester expectations
>(causing them not to report problems or not to test at all) and
>confort packagers that dump broken packages in rawhide without
>pre-testing and without allocating time to process problem reports
>once testes complain.

I disagree. Just sharing my experience with rawhide.

-- 
NV




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