[PyKDE] I Wish To Register A Complaint

[Donovan Rebbechi]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Phil Thompson wrote:

> There is zero communication between those distros and the contributors
> of the packages. If Red Hat, etc. were to tell me (under NDA if
> necessary) what their release schedule was, I'd be more than happy to
> make sure that they could ship with something that was reliable but as
> up to date as possible.

FWIW, I've had positive experiences with the Debian people. The guy who is
maintaining the package contacted us about putting it in Debian, and we send
him email when we release a new tarball, and he puts it in his CVS.

> I find it ironic, given that the open source model is supposed to
> produce better quality software, that Linux distros simply apply the
> test of time as the only QA measure.

I'm not sure this is completely true, but it is close. The problem is that
they ship zillions of packages, and they can't check all of them. Hence
it's not unusual for some packages to be shipped in a hideously broken
configuration (there was a terrible pause when LDP switched to docbook in
which several of the distributors shipped a broken docbook tool
collection)

-- 
Donovan