Re: Restore-reliability mode

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 June 2015 at 14:50, Noah Misch <span
dir="ltr"><<ahref="mailto:noah@leadboat.com" target="_blank">noah@leadboat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br
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id=":6l2"style="overflow:hidden"> I<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​​</div>would define the subject matter as "bug
fixes,testing and review", not<br /> "restructuring, testing and review."  Different code structures are clearest<br />
todifferent hackers.  Restructuring, on average, adds bugs even more quickly<br /> than feature development adds
them.<br/></div></blockquote></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">​+1to this. Rewriting or restructuring code because you don't
trustit (even though you have no reported real-world bugs)​ is a terrible idea. </div><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br/></div><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Stoppingall feature development to do it is even
worse.</div><divclass="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br /></div><div
class="gmail_default"style="style"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I know you're not talking about rewriting, but I
think<a
href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html</a>
isalways worth a re-read, if only because it's funny :)</font><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"
style="style"><fontface="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="style"><font
face="verdana,sans-serif">I would always 100% support a decision to push back new releases because of bugfixes for
<i>known</i> issues,but if you think you <i>might </i>be able to find bugs in code you don't like, you should do that
onyour own time. Iff you find actual bugs, <i>then </i>you talk about halting new releases.</font></div><div
class="gmail_default"style="style"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></font></div><div class="gmail_default"
style="style"><spanstyle="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Geoff</span></div></div></div>