Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Mohammad A. Haque (mhaque@haque.net)
Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:44:11 -0500

On Saturday, December 1, 2001, at 03:39 , Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> Throwing releases onto the public is not testing. Saying
> "it works/does not work for me" is not testing. Testing
> is _actively_ trying to break things, _very_ preferably
> by another person that wrote the code and to do it
> in documentable and reproducible way. I don't see many
> people doing it.

If someone sent me a whole slew of hardware and provided a me with a
steady income so I didn't have to work, I could do this. But fact of the
matter is, most of the people working on the kernel are doing it not for
a living, but for fun or they enjoy it. They probably don't have the
endless fields of hardware that vendors do. If the above is what you
want, stick with vendor releases and not Linus (or maintainer) releases.

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