On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:54:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:44:59 PDT > Ken Ambrose said: > > >Alas, QA has one (or two, depending on how you look at it) strike(s) > >against it: > >- it's not "sexy," which means relatively few do it voluntarily, which means > >- it costs money. > > I'm actually suprised more people don't want to do QA. I mean, it's > rare that you can actually get paid for breaking things. The real > bonus is that once you break them, you don't have to fix them, you > get to pass that ball to someone else in "development" :) The problem there is a number of factors:
1) Developers don't want FAQs, and generally take a dim view of end users (see mplayer). 2) Users assume the bug has already been reported. 3) End users usually don't know how to generate good bug reports. "It doesn't work" never cuts it. Any bug you report has to be repeatable by the developers. -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
