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

[Shubham Goyal <shubham@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

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?

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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