From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
david@lang.hm, Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804161413.05869.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080416042920.GB25188@1wt.eu>
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
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2008-04-13 23:51 ` Reporting bugs and bisection david
2008-04-14 0:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-14 4:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-14 5:39 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 6:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 6:39 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 6:43 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 7:23 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 7:43 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:30 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 5:25 ` Bill Fink
2008-04-14 10:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 10:41 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 17:35 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-14 12:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-14 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 17:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 19:30 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-04-14 15:54 ` James Morris
2008-04-14 22:01 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 4:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-15 13:18 ` Work WAS(Re: " jamal
2008-04-15 9:33 ` David Newall
2008-04-15 9:54 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-15 14:04 ` David Newall
2008-04-15 20:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-16 2:34 ` David Newall
2008-04-16 3:53 ` david
2008-04-16 9:06 ` David Newall
2008-04-16 11:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-16 12:41 ` Stephen Clark
2008-04-16 4:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-16 12:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2008-04-16 12:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 13:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-16 19:43 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 19:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-17 13:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-17 15:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 19:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-04-16 20:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 19:39 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 20:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 20:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 21:05 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 21:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 20:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-16 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16 21:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-04-17 17:04 ` David Newall
2008-04-17 19:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-17 19:35 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-17 19:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-17 20:16 ` Al Viro
2008-04-17 20:38 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-17 20:53 ` Al Viro
2008-04-17 21:01 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-14 19:13 ` Rene Herman
2008-04-14 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 22:18 ` Rene Herman
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