[ILUG] Open Source Developers and Users Survey

[Alberto Ruiz]

2007/7/2, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com>:
>
> Josh Glover wrote:
> The reason I prefer my testers not to be coders themselves is that they
> may fall into the same habits. Thankfully, we have a very good tester
> who manages to stay ambivalent to the way our software "should" run, and
> comes up with bugs which I would not possibly have noticed because I
> tend to follow the same routes through the software.


I prefer to have both. Testers, and developers looking at the source code
when they need to fix it. With closed source, you only can have testers, as
an example, most people filling bugs to Ubuntu or Gnome, are not coders at
all. But there are some coders that look at the bugs and then dive into the
source code to fix it. Maybe you have the gut feeling that most people don't
do it, but you would be surprised on how much people out there are waiting
for a challenge, or just, need to fix those things, and came up with patches
and solutions.

Cheers,
-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz