Professionalism in the development version (was Re: Artwork shuffle?)

[Robin Sonefors]

sön 2006-04-16 klockan 23:34 +0100 skrev Matthew East:
> -> sounder.
> 
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 18:15 -0400, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> > Matthew East wrote:
> > > Everyone using it knows there is some
> > > element of risk in using it, but if we are going to be _this_ extreme
> > > about discouraging people from using it, then we are not going to get
> > > many testers, and the OS will suck more.
> > 
> > Extreme? I spoke about the operating system eating chocolate, for crying
> > out loud.
> 
> Not only, you also said "wipe your partition table". Sure, your tongue
> was partly in your cheek, but your view was clear: use the development
> version and the user loses a right to complain when things go wrong. I
> don't completely disagree, I was simply pointing out that an attitude of
> that sort will inevitably lead to fewer testers. More below:
> 
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/espresso/+bug/35079

Not quite, but close. And during the breezy development cycle, X was
broken a lot of the time.

Whipe your partition table doesn't sound like something a development
release couldn't do.
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