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From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:48:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110707303.32297.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42338E75.1030602@gentoo.org>

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On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 02:51 +0200, Alin Nastac wrote:
> Olivier Crête wrote:
> >On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 01:01 +0100, Ernst Herzberg wrote:
> >>>dev-util/esvn:
> >>
> >>0.6.8-r1 was masked, and has some crazy bugs, that this stuff is not usable 
> >>for an 'enduser'. If you select an 'working directory', the last character of 
> >>the path get lost. You have to create a workspace, select there a working 
> >>directory, add the last character by hand....
> >>
> >>OkOk, as long as this stuff is masked, no problem. BUT: Upstream has released 
> >>a new version with this bug fixed. Why went the buggy version stable? And the 
> >>new with the bug fixed version is masked? That make no sense to me.
> >>
> >>Can somebody explain that?
> >
> >Maybe you should ask MrNess... But he doesn't seem to think that testing
> >is important... 
> 
> This package I happen to use at work, I could say I did more than a 
> simple test.
> Do you suggest that, if this bug is real, I should know about?
> Do you understand that tests don't always detect bugs, right?

Ohh I was just commenting on another QA related thread... and I was
extrapolating that this might be related to a certain QA policy that
certain developers seem to follow... But it is sure that testing doesn't
find the interesting bugs (that's why we need users!)...

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
x86 Security Liaison

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-13  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-12  0:01 [gentoo-dev] why went unusable versions stable? Ernst Herzberg
2005-03-12  1:19 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-12  3:12   ` Ernst Herzberg
2005-03-12  4:08     ` Brian Jackson
2005-03-12  4:20     ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-03-12  1:21 ` Olivier Crête
2005-03-13  0:51   ` Alin Nastac
2005-03-13  9:48     ` Olivier Crête [this message]
2005-03-13  9:57       ` Alin Nastac

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