Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

Marc Haber <mh+debian-project <at> zugschlus.de> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:36:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I suppose it's possible this is how they were reading the "Dunc-Bank"
>> QA effort to find RC bugs, but if so, I think they were misreading the
>> spirit of that effort

> I think that the first two sentences on http://dunc-bank.zoy.org/ have
> any potential of being mis-read. Dunc-Bank looks like a desperate effort
> to make the current dunc-tank experiment fail masquerading behind a
> generally good idea. Thankfully, the web page makes it pretty clear what
> dunc-bank's real objective is.

I read it as humor, but possibly that's helped by seeing it when it was
originally proposed and seeing people take it in a fairly light-hearted
fashion.  Plus, I really do appreciate the work that they're doing.
They're not making up RC bugs; they're finding real problems that really
do need to be fixed.

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Russ Allbery (rra <at> debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>