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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Huge amounts of time, effort and users. How much arch team time was |
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> spent fixing genkernel? How much time was spent fixing the OS X mess? |
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> How many users did we lose as a result of all the QA screwups? |
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Eh, I wanted answers, not more questions :P |
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> As much as I hate relying upon slashdot for anything reasonable at all, |
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> an awful lot of people in that thread were suggesting that more time be |
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> spent on QA and fixing existing bugs and much less on fancy new |
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> things... |
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These users are ignoring the fact that time is not the only and most |
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important factor. Motivation is far more important IMO, and it's pretty |
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hard to get the motivation together to test 60 packages instead of |
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tinkering around with a new idea. At least for me it often is. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 developer |
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