On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
That is loser talk, plain and simple. If you believe it, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you do software development right, you might not get the schedules some higher-up would like, but you can meet the schedules you commit to with reasonable or even excellent quality. Being this ready to capitulate and--to commit the cardinal sin--push something out the door because of a calendar date even if it's not ready is what makes consumers of computing technology rightfully develop such a bad opinion of the software industry. I've been doing software development as my sole occupation for over 25 years and I've seen it done all sorts of ways, but when the calendar, driven by arbitrary managerial fiat, is what calls the shots, quality suffers. When the managers listen to the engineers, the commitment that are made are met and the quality is sufficient to satisfy all concerned.
I really don't think SuSE Linux / OpenSuSE development is being driven by managers and arbitrary dates. Heck, people say the same about Fedora Core -- when it's nothing of the sort. If anything, I sure OpenSuSE is driving a lot of "manager hands-off" on development of SuSE Linux -- much like the move to Fedora Core did for Red Hat. SuSE Linux is not the Linux money maker for Novell-SuSE, but SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------- Illegal Immigration = "Representation Without Taxation" -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com