Re: Worrisome bug trend

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID: <200702272207.10453.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vodnfg4sy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

tisdag 27 februari 2007 13:31 skrev Junio C Hamano:

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> I was reviewing the bugs we fixed since v1.5.0 and noticed
> almost all of them are ancient ones.  We do have small number of
> bugs introduced by recently added commands and options, but I
> see quite a few that are from 2005.
> 
> I take that as a sign that git hasn't been exercised well and
> yet more ancient bugs are sleeping, waiting to be triggered, not
> as a sign that we are very careful and adding only small number
> of risky new code in the releases.
> 
> Which is kind of depressing...

When bugs gets fixed and reappear, that's the time to start worry. That old bugs gets fixed is a very good sign. It means Git is being tested by users that care. Git is very feature rich and considering that, it's amazing that is isn't completly bugridden with a 10K known unfixed bugs. That would be depressing, the current state isn't.

-- robin