lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:04 +0200 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, david@...g.hm, Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jesper.juhl@...il.com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, git@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists