critpath approval process seems rather broken

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Apr 11 17:29:59 UTC 2011


Adam Williamson wrote:
> O rly? Are you *sure*? Sure it's not at all possible there could be a
> bug somewhere in NM which causes it to crash because it misparses an odd
> character in one of the files, for instance? "It's just a
> configuration / data file, it can't possibly break anything!" is one of
> those assertions that bitter experience tends to prove incorrect on
> occasion :)

But is that minute risk worth withholding the useful bugfix update for 2+ 
MONTHS, because of completely unrealistic testing requirements which just 
won't be fulfilled out there in the real world for a n-1 release?

        Kevin Kofler



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