Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:19:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: When to push bug fixes to mainline |
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> And maybe in the end, having 1/10 patch cause a regression is not *that* > dramatic, and probably less than not fixing the 9 other bugs. In one case > we rely on -stable to merge the 10 fixes, and on the other case we'd rely > on -stable to just revert one of them.
Apologies for the late post, I'm catching up on things, but this jumped out at me.
We went through a LOT of pain several years ago when people got into the mindset that a patch was acceptable if it fixed more people than it broke. eliminating that mindset did wonders for kernel stability.
Regressions are a lot more of a negative than bugfixes are a positive, a 10:1 ratio of fixes to regressions is _not_ good enough.
David Lang
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