Em Sábado 3. Abril 2010, às 12.26.36, Jean-Christian de Rivaz escreveu: > I found a bit easy to refuse to talk about quality because some people > get it as "religious". Quality is not a religion! It's facts that you > can quantify, policies and procedures to grant targeted goals. > > > You make at least two false points. For the first, I don't think Thiago > > meant low quality when me mentioned "lowest common denominator". > > But rather something in the lines of: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_common_denominator > > Thanks for remind me school math. But unlike you, I think that the > intent was to say that some distribution are not worth to be supported > by Meego.
It wasn't. So stop trying to put words in my mouth.
I merely said that trying to support EVERY single distribution out there is
silly. If you try., someone is going find some distro out there, somewhere,
that doesn't have the necessary functionality.
Supporting every single distro would mean restricting to the lowest common
denominator of all of them.
So, yes, I did mean that there will be distros that won't be supported easily.
Think of old versions or specialised distributions, like those meant to fit on
floppy disks. However, at no point did I say anything about Debian being
included in that category. You assumed.
Now, you're saying that MeeGo QA is defective for not testing Debian. I beg to
differ. Testing in all mainstream distros is far too much work. You can only
expect the engineers to test on a couple, and tough luck if your distribution
of choice isn't included in that list. I'm not going to ask that mine be
tested, so neither should you.
Or, we can look at it from another angle: your reporting of the issues is
closing the QA loop. Now the bugs are getting fixed and Debian was tested.
That's the power of community -- it's much larger than just the Intel and
Nokia engineers could do on their own.
Now let's get back to work.
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