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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/02/2013 6:02 PM, Cameron Shorter
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/02/2013 4:15 PM, Peter Baumann
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">thanks for your views, Cameron!<br>
Indeed, the testing (and QC in general) is something that is
consuming significant resources. Well, every project has to go
through that, right?<br>
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In software and systems integration, good quality control accounts
for a significant proportion of the project's cost, but the extra
quality is difficult to explain and sell to a sponsor.<br>
Sponsors are regularly tempted to spend extra money on features,
but find it harder to justify spending money on something as
nebulous as "less bugs".<br>
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PS, I meant to finish with ...<br>
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Sponsors do appreciate quality, but find quality hard to measure.
This is where the value of OSGeo-Incubation comes in - in that
sponsors acknowledge the quality of projects which have gone through
incubation, and the incubation process, and therefore will add value
to projects which have passed incubation.<br>
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It is worth noting that we, the incubation committee and incubated
projects, need to retain our high standards for incubation if we
wish to retain the association of osgeo incubation with quality.<br>
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
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