From: Andreas Jung (listszopyx.com)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2007 - 15:06:00 CDT

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Marc,

--On 26. März 2007 21:47:59 +0200 Marc Balmer <marcmsys.ch> wrote:

> Andreas Jung wrote:
>
>> I uploaded corrected versions of the Zope 2.9.7 and 2.10.3 tar-balls.
>> The tar-balls released yesterday contained a bug that caused
>> a startup failure when using "zopectl start".
>
> don't do this again.
>
> this bug is so obvious to catch that I have some serious doubts about
> your software testing process.

Please calm down. Even trivial bugs can slip sometimes through the testing
phase. In this particular case new code from a hotfix caused this problem.

> can we trust your releases in the future, will you change sth in your
> process?

To say it clear as release manager: I don't care much about Zope and Python
packages. We tell the people all the time: use the sources. And we are
doing our best.

>
> Releasing software as a security fix that does not even start makes you
> look like a moron, I am sorry to say.

Harsh words...when I Look the various broken packages for Zope and Python
on various distributions I could call the maintainers also moron.

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