Re: Restore-reliability mode

On 3 June 2015 at 14:50, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:

> I
> ​ ​
> would define the subject matter as "bug fixes, testing and review", not
> "restructuring, testing and review." Different code structures are
> clearest
> to different hackers. Restructuring, on average, adds bugs even more
> quickly
> than feature development adds them.
>

​+1 to this. Rewriting or restructuring code because you don't trust it
(even though you have no reported real-world bugs)​ is a terrible idea.

Stopping all feature development to do it is even worse.

I know you're not talking about rewriting, but I think
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html is always worth a
re-read, if only because it's funny :)

I would always 100% support a decision to push back new releases because of
bugfixes for *known* issues, but if you think you *might *be able to find
bugs in code you don't like, you should do that on your own time. Iff you
find actual bugs, *then *you talk about halting new releases.

Geoff