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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:04 +0200
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On Wednesday, 16 of April 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 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 :-)

Exactly.

And BTW, by saying "timely" I meant "in -rc" or "before the next major release".

Thanks,
Rafael