Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...
Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:07:06AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > With the existing "core team", changes *do* get checked into CVS > > that *do* break things too. The savage driver being one example > > (Dec 16th checkin) which broke the savage driver on Savage MX, > > and obviously was not tested on real hardware. It also wasn't > > fixing any real bug. This clearly shows that even the core team > > can check in bugs that break hardware also, and often do (or > > there wouldn't be any bugs right?) > > That's were your wrong Mike. I do have hardware and I did test that > change on my equipment, and it did work fine here. I think that illustrates the point about it being important to get code out there and people running it even more clearly. (Im not blaming anyone here - let me be clear, the same happens in other projects because its not humanly possible to dot hat kind of testing without a big team of QA engineers)