On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:23, Duaine Hechler
I - LOVE - Linux and I - LOVE - openSuSE although, I have to pose a question:
Are the developers forcing the (I believe ?) 8 months cycle and falling down on the QA testing before the rollout ?
Eluding to: My wife works is a contract QA tester and on several occasions she has been told that - basically the hell with QA testing - we HAVE to meet the target rollout date - and - those little errors can be fixed later.
Is this happening - or - am I wrong ?
There is lots of testing going on, but... not everyone here tests. The people doing testing don't test in every possible combination because we cannot hope to duplicate all the use cases and odd unusual "corner cases"... we (whoever tested prior to release) test on what computers and use case scenarios we can... in my case, a spare laptop and VirtualBox. My only other computer is my main computer... as much as I'd love to test on it too, I can't afford to have it offline more than a couple hours because it's my work computer as well as webserver etc etc. openSUSE is a COMMUNITY project. That means that you and I are responsible for testing... not some unidentified official salaried QA department in some multinational mega-corp. So.. if testing wasn't enough, we only have ourselves to blame here... "we" meaning me.. you.. everyone who uses openSUSE. If I want a solid release of 12.2.. I have to take the initiative and get involved.. test it on MY hardware.. file bug reports and contribute where I can. The exact same rule applies to you and everyone else here... you want a solid fully tested release? Then please step up and do the testing. The more people who test in more hardware and configuration combinations, the better chance we (as a community) have of identifying the problems. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org