Re: Accountability

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:34:01 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 pkobly@calgary.crosswinds.net wrote:

> New features add risk. Bug fixes decrease risk.

To be pedantic bug fixes *increase* risk because they might
introduce new bugs. However they do, or should, *reduce*
the number of known failure modes.

Mike

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