On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:52 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Releasing something that's buggy where the developers don't realize > it, makes it aggravating. > > This is impossible to achive, no release is bug free. And all > maintainers that make releases know that what they release contains > bugs, somewhere.
Of course, but denying the fact that they are there doesn't help anybody. Nobody is saying test it extensively to find bugs, just main things that don't work. > > At lease with a bug list, it cuts down on the confusion. With a bug > list, people know what to expect. > > Known bugs should be fixed before a release, then when people find > bugs after the release, they report them, and they get fixed. And a > bug-fix release is made. > If you try to fix all the bugs before a the release, then by your logic, the software would never be released. You have to start somewhere. > Cheers. > _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
