Now that 10.04 has reached end of life...

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

Hans Joachim Desserud:
> What isn't known in most of these cases is whether the bug has survived
> through years of new versions and releases.

If this happens, it is a clear signal that the software quality is not 
very good.

In my opinion 99% of bugs should be catches just after writing the code, 
by doing unit testing on each method been used.

There is an old saying in Japan which says "if you have not the time to 
prevent errors, I expect you to have the time for solving them".

So when I see buggy software, I know there is no excuse. Simply some 
developer is writing crazily and leaving the dirty work to others, and 
nobody preventing it. The simplest test-case would have cached most of 
these errors.

There are applications that I use frequently that never fail; like Gimp, 
Audacity, Blender, Owncloud, and many from KDE. On the other hand many 
GNOME applications, although I love the concept of simplicity, usually 
look more like prototypes.

So my personal choice has been to assume that the software is published 
with a decent quantity of bugs, decent to fix them on a decent 
time-frame. If not I believe the problem is human not technical, and 
that's what needs improvements. Other formula is simply bailing water 
while leaving the hole open.


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