RV wrote:
>
> Mama Cass wrote:
>
> > In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Graham Leggett say
> > these wise words:
> >
> >
> >>The Mozilla
> >>community would be doing itself an enormous service by implementing some
> >>simple quality assurance rules
> >>
> >
> > This was discussed months ago - the general flavour of comments from
> > developers was that it was impossible to prevent breakages because one
> > would never know what other code would be broken by any given alteration.
> >
> > Personally, I don't believe a word of the above - I think that code should
> > be verified, I.e. temporarily checked in and then tested for what other
> > code it would break prior to it being accepted as a part of the Mozilla
> > source code, and if it broke anything that was not purposefully intending
> > to break, then it should be refused - short and simple.
> >
> > That way we will have good stability, as well as development, and we won't
> > break features that have already become a part of Mozilla.
>
> What are you complaining about. what you suggest is EXACTLY what is
> being done. They put out nightlies and milestones for the exact purpose
> of testing by a broad audience. Do you expect a beta or pre-release
> version to be fully operational without bugs or inconsistensies? Am I
> missing something? Anyone who can't tolerate the ups and down of Mozilla
> developement shouldn't be using it. Use a released product instead
> (netscape 4.78, 6.1, Opera or IE, whatever).
Don't recommend N6 at the current time it works no better or perhaps
worse than Moz.
Communicator 4.7.8, Opera, or maybe IE if desperate.
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