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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> posted |
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20080613062612.46931b33@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Jun |
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2008 06:26:12 +0100: |
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> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:30:54 +0530 |
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> "Arun Raghavan" <arunisgod@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> And why do you have to be plain insulting about it? Nobody can |
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>> magically spot every single bug in any piece of code presented to them. |
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>> In fact it's why the "given enough eyes ..." adage is one of the bases |
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>> of open source development. |
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> Which is why any responsible person ensures good test coverage. |
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>> I _honestly_ do not understand why there is so much trouble in simple |
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>> cooperation amongst adults. |
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> I agree entirely. Why the pkgcore people refuse to do basic automated |
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> tests is completely beyond me. |
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That may or may not be, but it's beside the point. The point is that a |
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bug was found, that fact was stated, and regardless of other points that |
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could be made, the developer of the code in question was all but forced |
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to call the person who caught the bug God and ask forgiveness for his |
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sin, in ordered to find out what the bug was. |
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Cooperation is understanding that people may have different development |
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methods and reporting the bug as found so it can be fixed, possibly |
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pointing out while doing so how much simpler it would be to find such |
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bugs in the future if an automated test case was created. Cooperation is |
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not forcing them to do it my way now, or at least admit my way's better, |
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before deigning to reveal the bug I know and they don't. If enough bugs |
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happen due to the lack of those tests and they hit enough people, the |
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problem will one way or another take care of itself as the test cases are |
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either provided and integrated somehow some way, or people move on to |
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more stable solutions. If not, perhaps those test cases weren't so vital |
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after all, and fixing the handful of bugs as they appeared ultimately |
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worked just as well as doing all those extra corner-case tests. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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