>On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:32:57 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 aCaB wrote:
>
>> On our side we do a lot of QA
>> ...
>> I really believe something needs to happen here so that these type of
>> bugs can be caught quickly before they affect a number of users.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
>I suspect that rather than QA, what you do is just a lot of hap-hazard
>testing. That's why, whenever I see a new release of ClamAV, first I
>will suppress a groan and then, before I risk it on any of my servers,
>I'll wait a while and watch the users' list to see how much trouble it
>causes. This approach serves me well, although I can't say I'm proud
>of the fact that I'm letting a lot of poor innocents do my acceptance
>testing for me.
OK...I'm probably going to PO a few folks here but you asked for
opinions so I'll share one....
We run about 50 Unix/Linux servers here...almost all are 32-bit RHEL4
not an unknown distro by any means and what I'd suspect is easy to
test on. Several more are Solaris 9, again a well known OS, and
several more are Fedora Core 10, again a well known common OS build.
This latest release had basic make issues in ALL THREE OS versions
that should have been caught by simply typing make as it wouldn't even
finish the make step without various patches....in my mind that
doesn't qualify it as even ALPHA software much less BETA or a Release
Candidate and surely not a Production Release version...please don't
embarrass yourselves by saying you do alot of QA....that obviously
didn't happen in this release and has been a problem in the last few
releases....
I expect better from a commercial company like SourceFire now that
they own the product as a commercial concern...its the same codebase
for free or paid users as far as I know, the differences is paying
users get to call for support.
George
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