Re: CVS debacle

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> One of the cornerstones of a systematic quality control system is that
> the developer must rebuild and run regression tests before committing to
> prevent bugs from getting into the trunk of the source repository.  With
> gnome, we get a totally backwards QA system: commit all the changes at
> once without testing, ignore scores of failing assertions, unleash it on
> the public and hope that they will find the bugs.

When you make coding less fun, the volunteer developers will go
elsewhere.  And like it or not, this makes coding less fun.

We all agree testing is a good thing, but it's also mind-numbingly slow
and tedious with GUI apps.

	Jeff