On Wednesday, 16 of April 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote:

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:04:59PM +0930, David Newall wrote:

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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

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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