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Re: Distro packaging decisions and the non-public Enterprise source

From: Colin Charles <colin(at)mysql.com>
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 04:51:29 EDT


Jeremy Cole wrote:

Hi!

>> Yes, this has been brought up, and everything you've mentioned before 
>> has also been brought up. Our canned answer for this is that the 
>> internal server QA processes have improved tremendously, and there are 
>> many many test cases and an impressive test suite, hence MySQL has 
>> decided to try a "reverse Enterprise" model

>
> Oh come on. *Just today* another incident has caught my attention which
> shows a lack of QA for basic things: 5.0.48 was pulled because of a
> stupid bug which should have been caught in basic QA. You may be ready
> to call the community unnecessary for QA, but I am not.

As Joerg has mentioned before, not everyone agrees with this, and while I personally believe community QA is necessary, it seems that at the moment, the Enterprise team things otherwise

So no, I haven't written off community QA

</standard disclaimers apply, these are my opinions only>

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