On Tuesday 24 March 2009 11:26:36 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Being not part of an official release makes the software release-candidate at best. Normally unreleased software is beta or worse quality.
There is a lot of software that is not included in official distro, but it is good software. Man-hour constrains make impossible to include them. Software included in Education project is perfect example.
Also, lack of support *is* something that lowers the quality of software, usually to beta-quality or lower.
That can be your internal way to simplify thinking about quality, but again Beta is used to describe development stage, ie. code quality, while support means much more than just code. It is problem resolution that is not only code debugging, but also creating documentation, user education, help with configuration for particular purpose, guaranteed time farames for response, guaranteed length of support, development of solutions based on software under support, and more. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org