[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: System

[Harri Haataja]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
> > Warren Togami wrote:
> > I would further suggest our policy include two additional clarifications:
> >
> >    * If we must fix bugs which are not security-related, fix the
> >    high priority items that cause work stoppage, data loss, etc.
> >    Don't fix unimportant bugs (simple cosmetic items, rarely used
> >    features, etc).  Let those be fixed in newer Fedora releases.
> >    * Don't add new features no matter how popular they are, unless
> >    they are necessary to resolve security or high-priority
> >    functionality bugs.
Good.

> If it's a bug and no one encounters it, who cares.

The ones who _will_ hit the bug because it has not been fixed.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IfItIsWorkingDontChange

The stupid "IfItAintBrokeDontFixIt" is mostly an antipattern.
Maintenance is a good thing. But stable version of a  product indeed do
not neccessarily need new features. These are two different things.

Not a flame or anything, just rephrasing.

-- 
The most common error message we got from a modula II compiler that I used
at an other company was "Unexpected ';',  expecting ';'"
		-- Rick Clements