[Dapper] Who decided to hose wpasupplicant?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:12:04AM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> Dapper is more than 2 months away from its release which is a very
> long time in this business.  Things will break between now and then
> since they are dozen of updates applied on a daily basis.

Again, I realize that it's unstable software. But I hope we
can all agree that

a) certain mistakes just shouldn't make it into the wild:
   all statements should end in semicolons. :-)

and

b) we'd like more ordinary users to be involved in testing
   Dapper, if at all possible.

Which suggests that, while Dapper will be less stable than
Breezy, it really ought to avoid containing a large class of
errors. There are instabilities, and then there's
carelessness. The former should be acceptable, the latter
not. I believe that this wpa_supplicant mess is the latter.

I worked for a (Windows-based) software company, where every
single build went through rigorous regression, performance,
and bug testing. Every time someone discovered a new bug,
they added a test to the test harness so that that bug
wouldn't appear in the next release. I realize that for
various structural reasons this is less likely in the
open-source world. But I assert that it is vital.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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