On Saturday 06 January 2001 02:08, you wrote:
> So sprach David Benfell am Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:46:20PM -0800:
> > More likely, the answer is that they didn't really test this. And it
> > suggests that the distributors are rushing out new versions without an
> > acceptable level of testing.
>
> Not tested? Have you ever heard about Cooker? That's the testbed for the
> upcoming distribution, and it's public. Do you know of any other
> ditributor besides Debian that openly (like in really everyone can try it)
> tests the new distribution like this?
>
> Alexander Skwar
What is an acceptable level? For free software? This is a question without
an obvious analytical answer. In fact the only answers I get are opinions,
usually one unique opinion per responder.
But for those who don't think there is enough testing, you are invited ...
To be a tester.
The pay is terrible ($0), but the satisfaction of helping the free software
community produce better software and my personal pledge to help you
configure your system for the next distro (by email) do come with the package.
This is not "smoke" testing where we start a program and see if it
crashes--this will be functionality testing and quantifying impressions; that
is, rating the software. Furthermore, the testing reports will be available
so users have something to check when deciding which software to employ for a
particular task. (You might not care if a spreadsheet's greek letter ability
for formulas is 75% functional if you are making pie charts but you WOULD
care if the logos were displaying in a funky font).
But if you would like to see more testing, here is a new channel, not
designed to interfere with cooker, but to add to it, where you CAN do
something about it.
Civileme
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QA/Software testing
