[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

Sun Jul 17 00:56:05 CEST 2011

+
+> Sick of the lack of quality is perfectly acceptable, but you know what
+> fixes that? People who care about it actually *working* on it.
+> Complaining about it doesn't help anyone!
+
+You're right in theory, and probably also in practice. However, as a
+skeptical and pessimistic by nature (and by experience: I believe
+not in progress, but in human regress, and this has nothing to do
+with technological progress), I fear that the OS field might eventually
+reach the status we're now seeing in the smartphones field:
+1. everyone curses his or her smartphone, no matter the make and model,
+for various design flaws, hardware or software (always software too);
+2. what happens is that newer smartphones models are issued
+(updating the firmware for existing/old models is discouraged in this
+consumerist society), with different design or implementation flaws
+(including software issues);
+3. now curses his or her smartphone, just a different model.
+
+Sticking to maturity and stability is generally a sign of stagnation, not 
+a sign of progress. However, nowadays everything is incredibly complex
+as compared to, say, 50 years ago. At the same time, no matter what
+we believe, our capabilities of dealing with complex situations, and the
+procedures of managing such processes are not satisfactory enough.
+Through complexity, we've reached a level of fragility unforeseen before.
+And that includes software. When I'm looking at the hundreds of thousands
+of bug reports at an upstream project (KDE, GNOME) or distros like 
+*buntu, Fedora, EL, I cannot but jump to the conclusion that the whole 
+process is out of control, and the bug-fixing (or even bug triaging) is nothing
+else but a lottery.
+
+R-C
+