On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:52:13 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@gmail.com>:
Let's not forget Loui, We are all human and make mistakes. A QA process is definitely a good thing.
Is QA the thing what makes Debian so bleeding edge? *SCNR*
I haven't had any stability issues with Arch Linux, yet, neither with Gentoo. And in these very rare cases in which something unforeseen happens with an update it can easily be fixed by either downgrading or waiting a few days for an update which fixes the issue. Or it can be fixed or worked around in other ways.
So Arch Linux is absolutely stable and bleeding edge in my opinion and can indeed be used in a production environment.
And, btw., isn't the testing done by the devs in the git tree and in [testing] not QA?
In an ideal world, the people whose livelihoods / lives depend on Arch (if such people exist) would dedicate some resources to helping out with testing stuff in [testing]. So while the QA done by [testing] is quite limited, it could in principle be very good (depending on how many people owe us their lives). -t