Hi Colin,
> Yes, this has been brought up, and everything you've mentioned before
> has also been brought up. Our canned answer for this is that the
> internal server QA processes have improved tremendously, and there are
> many many test cases and an impressive test suite, hence MySQL has
> decided to try a "reverse Enterprise" model
Oh come on. *Just today* another incident has caught my attention which
shows a lack of QA for basic things: 5.0.48 was pulled because of a
stupid bug which should have been caught in basic QA. You may be ready
to call the community unnecessary for QA, but I am not.
Regards,
Jeremy
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