From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 06:28:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 06:28:26 -0400 Received: from p3EE3C993.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.227.201.147]:36100 "HELO emma1.emma.line.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 06:28:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 12:28:16 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: CML2 Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: CML2 1.4.0, aka "brutality and heuristics" Message-ID: <20010506122816.B8590@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: CML2 , "Eric S. Raymond" , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010504205312.A27435@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010504205312.A27435@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 20:53:12 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 04 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't > expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not > good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases > that one loses sight of the larger issues. The problem about rare cases is that they don't get proper testing, so bugs may slip through and go unnoticed for an extended amount of time without even being documented.