Distributions quotes of the week

I think the primary issue is that the crafting of binary packages is 'fairly' manual. Someone has to put the src.rpm in the meat grinder (koji) in the right order with the right spices (flags) to make the sausage at the other end. We rely on the cook to remember how they did it the last 10 times and that the taster (functional and ci) says it works. This normally works well but then it turns out that something swapped out somewhere and once 'fully cooked' (composed) that the sausage explodes.

Stable releases of core components of a major desktop should never contain bugs like "deleting contacts sometimes doesn't work" or "you can't add photos to an album in the Photos application because the dialog where you're supposed to do it is completely broken and the list entries multiply like rabbits who've been dosed up on viagra". Distribution validation testing is not *for* finding bugs like this.