From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757914AbYDPEo7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:44:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750931AbYDPEop (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:44:45 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:3139 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750850AbYDPEop (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:44:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:29:20 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: David Newall Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Michael Kerrisk , James Morris , Al Viro , Andrew Morton , david@lang.hm, Stephen Clark , Evgeniy Polyakov , Tilman Schmidt , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord , David Miller , jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Message-ID: <20080416042920.GB25188@1wt.eu> References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <517f3f820804150254w491cdf85s28f1d15696db8d96@mail.gmail.com> <4804B5D5.4090404@davidnewall.com> <200804152251.51308.rjw@sisk.pl> <480565D3.6000100@davidnewall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <480565D3.6000100@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :-)