Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 00:44:59 EST


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:04:59PM +0930, David Newall wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Well, even if someone introduces bugs relatively frequently, but then also
> > works with the reporters and fixes the bugs timely, it's about okay IMO.
> >
> This really is not okay. Even if bugs are fixed a version or two later,
> the impact those bugs have on users makes the system look bad and drives
> them away. We do not, I believe, want Linux to top the list for "most
> bugs". It's unprofessional, unreliable and quite undesirable.

that's what -rc are for, and it's unprofessional to use them in production :-)

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