From: Willy Tarreau Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:29:20 GMT Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Message-ID: <20080416042920.GB25188@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <480565D3.6000100@davidnewall.com> 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 :-)