On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:54:25 +0530, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com said:
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 22:14 +0530, Rony wrote:
Debian is supposed to be the pillar, the foundation of Linux. It should not have installation bugs. I can understand advanced bugs that could
Bugs are very tricky things to quash. Incase of a project where thousands of people contribute, its very difficult to get rid of all bugs!
It is even harder when the bugs are not reported. It is impossible to replicate all possible target machine environments and configurations in testing.
So cut them some slack. After all, they are a bunch of disorganized, unpaid, freelancers who may or may not have formal training in CSE. And its only a toy OS. Nothing real, right ;)
None of the above adjectives is, in truth, correct. The project is fairly well organized, with specific teams and team leaders in charge of specific areas, there is a QA group, a security group, and so on,
With the advent of canonical, progeny, IBM, and now dunc-tank, some fraction of the developers are actually paid to work on Debian.
Most people involved in Debian are professionals, and the vast majority have degrees in the field -- and there is a NM process that would weed out, one hopes, omst of the unprofessional and the incompetent.
BTW, adding a smiley after insults does not abrogate the rudeness; and no, I do not find denigrating other people and their work to be funny.
manoj