Re: [Sheflug] Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" to be released this weekend

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 February 2011 01:52:14 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2011 21:10:27 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > One interesting number has already been posted: in the two years
> > of development of Debian 6.0  "Squeeze" the Debian Project has
> > closed 149,862 bugs [6].
> 
> I can't help wondering to what extent this is cause for
> celebration: how is it possible to write code that contains that
> many faults? Or maybe this is the consultant's approach: payment
> by the inch (of paper in the report).

Hmm.. my own experience over 20 years has been that any software being 
written = many faults.  No matter whether it's UNIX or whatever.  The 
Debian community like to sit there in front of you and say things like 
"There you go... bugs fixed !".  So, there ya go !  Fixed it.  But, 
there are still bugs on the day of release.  Then Ubuntu come along 
and copy the same bugs over to their next release.  The more code you 
write the more faults there will be.  

For my part I would rather have the GNU/Linux version of bug fixing.  
At least people tell you about it.  I've been through 15 years of the 
Microsoft version where they just shove it under the table and claim 
it doesn't exist.  There is some honesty in the fact that bug fixing is 
made an open discussion and not a secret of some sort of political or 
religious group.  

-- 
Richard
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