... made some developers actually work to hold back the release in protest...
Assuming that you're referring to http://dunc-bank.zoy.org/, your comment should be "made some developers actually work to discover more RC bugs thus holding back the release but producing a more stable resulting release " The way your original comment ius worded makes it sound like developers are delaying the release without any productive reason. I would say that regardless of motivation, discovering RC bugs prior to release is a good thing.
From the Dunc-Bank website:
The Dunc-Bank is an experiment to see how aggressive bug reporting can delay the release of Debian Etch.
We hope that by finding more and more RC bugs in Debian we can delay Etch. Dunc-Bank stands for "Delay until new critical Bugs are nastily killed". We think that overall quality is more important than keeping release promises others did for us. We also put "Bank" in the name because we love money. We actually wish we had some money to fund people who report RC bugs.
This activity didn't help the release date, but on the upside, the release will be more bug-free, secure and stable.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a big purple dinosaur. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like the defendant makes fun of big purple rhyming dinosaurs, then he is entitled to no less than two million years in jail. Thank you.
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MPD and rtorrent? Not an exact answer but "equivalency" is not an exact concept, is it?
Assuming that you're referring to http://dunc-bank.zoy.org/, your comment should be "made some developers actually work to discover more RC bugs thus holding back the release but producing a more stable resulting release " The way your original comment ius worded makes it sound like developers are delaying the release without any productive reason. I would say that regardless of motivation, discovering RC bugs prior to release is a good thing.
From the Dunc-Bank website:
This activity didn't help the release date, but on the upside, the release will be more bug-free, secure and stable.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a big purple dinosaur. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like the defendant makes fun of big purple rhyming dinosaurs, then he is entitled to no less than two million years in jail. Thank you.
R.I.P. Phil Hartman, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer