Jeremy Cole wrote:
Hi!
>> 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.
As Joerg has mentioned before, not everyone agrees with this, and while
I personally believe community QA is necessary, it seems that at the
moment, the Enterprise team things otherwise
So no, I haven't written off community QA
</standard disclaimers apply, these are my opinions only>
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