Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1995 mails)

[Richard <ricreig@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri April 10 2009 1:54:02 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       I'm a bit troubled by the current "Sweep the bug under the rug" 
> philosophy I
> am seeing all too often with bugzilla. Latest example is:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488463
>
>       Why not fix the easy ones? The point/question being, "What justifies 
> leaving
> openSuSE broken when the fix is simple?"
>
>       It has always been "attention to detail" that has set SuSE/openSuSE 
> apart, why
> change course?
As you stated in your bugreport, 'where is the pride' in programming.  Well,  I 
think they have pride, but not in programming.   Like KDE3, that is outmoded, 
archaic and destined to become a fossil, its bones never discovered in the eons 
to come, I fear.   Besides, it is more fun to make excuses than repairs :)

Fortunately, there *are* some that still have pride in programming and consider 
it fun and rewarding to produce the best possible code.   At least a few are in 
openSuSE.org's membership though I perceive it is very much a 'good ole boys' 
membership and it may have been accidental that they were accepted for 
membership.

Unfortunately, you apparantly met a dev that does NOT exhibit programming 
pride, just pride.

Even more unfortunate:   Despite this regression in progamming attitudes and 
poor QC by openSuSE that is increasingly evident, openSuse is still better than 
most of the pack, and at or near the top of the major releases.    However, the 
way things are going, M$ will catch up all too soon!

Richard
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