kdenetwork/kmail

[David Faure]

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On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:20, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> It's quite "obvious" to me also that kmail's development strategy is 
> not working given kde 3.0 shipped with a severe imap bug. I therefore 
> very much doubt that this conservatism is really worth it. 

Oh come on, bugs happen. (Everyone please stop throwing mud to the
face of the KMail developers!).
KWord in KOffice-1.1 had a very severe printing bug - letters got squashed
against each other, nobody could print anything with it. Does that mean
the development strategy was wrong? No, it was a simple and stupid bug,
and we released 1.1.1 to fix it (and other things).

> Has anyone considering writing interface test suites for the lower-level 
> layers in kmail?, imo regression testing should just be a standard 
> for a project were the users rely so much on stability.

I agree very much with regression testing though, _that's_ the way
to avoid such bugs in releases - independently from the "development
strategy".

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David FAURE, david at mandrakesoft.com, faure at kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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