Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 22:22:59 EST


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:45:40 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> We should write code, not blow release nomenclature smoke.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:50:44AM +0200, Espen Fjellv?r Olsen wrote:
> I'm sorry i cant contribute with any code, i'm not skilled enough to
> do such a job, yet.
> The only way i can contribute is to do testing, a release need
> testing, testing and testing :)

Isn't this just what motivates what's in the next release? If the
patches weren't tested, why were they merged? Accidents can't be
anticipated. How long are you going to wait for one to happen?
Why expect one not to happen if you wait on the same code longer?


-- wli
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