To: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Eric Sandall <eric@sandall.us>, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>,
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Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:25:35 +0100
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"Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> writes:

> How do you ever know that new change introduced no new bugs?

Changing comments doesn't change generated code or your tools are
screwed. Trivial changes - you can be reasonably sure, too. Note
it's different from not having bugs at all.

>  Maybe
> there was a latent race condition that is activated by timing
> differences caused by the new code.

Then the bug already existed, you aren't adding any.

> The safe bet is to simply rename the final -rc with no further changes.

Safe? You can't be really safe here. Bad luck and version string
change (compile time or -rc* removal) will trigger disaster.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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