Re: [LTP] Review Required: [Re: [PATCH] fix mail02, 03 fail due to different sender names]

Caspar Zhang
2011-02-28T07:56:22Z

On 02/28/2011 03:41 PM, Shubham Goyal wrote:
> Alright Garrett.., I can understand your concerns on quality
> standardization and consistency across multiple platforms.
> But how do we conclude my below question for now?
>
> @Caspar: Any comments from your side?

I see Garrett committed my patch, it seems good for me. And I agree with
that LSB should maintain a test suite to improve standardization.

Thanks,
Caspar

>
> Thanks,
> Shubham
>
>
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Shubham Goyal
>> <shubham@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> Alright Garrett..., so how should we take the patches in userland
>>> arena in
>>> future (including this one from Caspar)?
>>> I mean should they be reviewed and merged upstream? Do LSB currently
>>> involved in maintaining them?
>> (this is going to seem like a bit of a rant, so please bear with me...)
>>
>> I don't know if the LSB actually has a test suite, but they should
>> really get into the business of producing a test suite, because the
>> LSB is mocked (in some circles) for being an excuse for a standards
>> committee.
>>
>> FreeBSD devs (for sure) and many Linux devs know that there isn't a
>> lot of decision making that goes into making Linux consistent across
>> all platforms. Someone needs to herd all of the cats together and
>> provide a means of testing standardization for these things (again,
>> LSB) because then the quality element will properly trickle down in
>> the GNU/Linux community.
>>
>> Right now everything's too ad hoc and messy for anyone depending on
>> behavior to actually depend on Linux to remain constant over an
>> extended period of time. That's one reason why (apart from GPL
>> licensing) that people stay away from Linux: it's consistently
>> inconsistent.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
>

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