SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
Exactly who is responsible for this kind of software bug?
The coder who wrote the code?
The functional spec writer?
The QA tester who didn't catch it?
The test scenario scripter?
The manager who oversaw the development process?
The QA manager?
The stakeholder who OK'd the move to production?
The project manager who co-ordinated the project?
The CTO of the company who funded the effort?
Or should they all be criminally liable, thus diluting the responsibility of any one person so that no one person is actually liable?
I sense a stone-thrower in a glass house here...
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That might explain it.
mod parent up PU-LEEZ
but don't look directly at parent or it will collapse
Heil Europa!
And that's why nobody should land there.
I read this as your wife is not the brightest bulb in the tulip garden
and you liking that about her
mod parent up, the alarmists are winning
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh