[kde-linux] Possibility of problems when copying files over?

[david]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, david wrote:
>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> I don't think that's a fair comment.
> 
>>> I do. 
>>
>> I never blame someone else for what I did.
>>
> It isn't blaming someone else to say that we need better quality control.
> 
> However, I think that the original comment is too harsh.  The KDE 
> project has grown and grown.  Developers are more interested in 
> developing new stuff than refining existing stuff

I would say "fixing stuff". REFINING existing stuff still has some 
programming status to it. But the quality control I was thinking of was 
more package maintainance than programming work.

>  -- quality control has 
> become a second or third priority rather than "Job One".  We have 
> reached the point where quality control needs to be an organized effort. 
>  Simply filing bugs and hoping that they get fixed by somebody doesn't 
> do it any more.  I have watched as KDE-3.4 & KDE-5 have gotten more 
> buggy and regressions have occurred that haven't been fixed.

This problem isn't afflicting only KDE.

-- 
David
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