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SubjectRe: When to push bug fixes to mainline
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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