On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Heiko Baums <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:52:13 -0500 > schrieb Jonathan Vasquez <[email protected]>: > >> Let's not forget Loui, We are all human and make mistakes. A QA >> process is definitely a good thing. > > Is QA the thing what makes Debian so bleeding edge? *SCNR* > > I haven't had any stability issues with Arch Linux, yet, neither with > Gentoo. And in these very rare cases in which something unforeseen > happens with an update it can easily be fixed by either downgrading or > waiting a few days for an update which fixes the issue. Or it can be > fixed or worked around in other ways. > > So Arch Linux is absolutely stable and bleeding edge in my opinion and > can indeed be used in a production environment. > > And, btw., isn't the testing done by the devs in the git tree and in > [testing] not QA?
In an ideal world, the people whose livelihoods / lives depend on Arch (if such people exist) would dedicate some resources to helping out with testing stuff in [testing]. So while the QA done by [testing] is quite limited, it could in principle be very good (depending on how many people owe us their lives). -t
