Posts by Baneo

When code goes bad: What to watch for

Ha.

I think we all need to take one thing into consideration, and remember the fact that many of the developers we are speaking of do not have English as their first language.

We also need to remember the fact that everyone has their own unique style of coding and depending on the reason for writing the code, will determine how they anotate that. For example, if someone is simply writing code for a private project which will then be sent to the customer, then we should not assume that they will include comments, or at least comments that we expect to match exactly what we are looking for. Further to that, I don't think that it's really a right to be able to complain about something that was given to you for free in the first place. I know some people will be thinking, don't release something if it isn't complete, seriously though don't use it or read it, if you don't agree with it!

Manners, more than anything.

After Debian's epic SSL blunder, a world of hurt for security pros

A lot of misguided people here.

I don't know how anyone can comment on open-source in a bad way. There is nothing negative that can come from open-source other than of course those greedy people cannot take money from the people who could use it in better ways, but hey that's another subject altogether.

I think we can should all take a big step back for a second. Unless the developer who made this apparent self-made mistake pushed his way into his current postion by nothing but complete lies then a lot of people here need to start questioning their own ability, especially within the development world.

How can one possibly leave such a large task to one man? I have no doubt on my mind that this person asked for help and that this person will even take the wrap for what has happended even after asking for support.

What we have hear is a lack of communication and nothing more, we might of seen development skills from both sides of the table but I know which side of the table needs blaming in my opinion and I'll give you a hint - it's not Debian.

Seriously, what the hell is going on these days.