Re: An apology about my commits
- In reply to: Kubilay Kocak : "Re: An apology about my commits"
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 03:42:30 UTC
> It's your thoughts and care that count Neel, don't feel guilty. Thanks! > The responses you received could have been a bit more 'matter of fact'. > > What was *actually* important about the replies was 'we should be > QA'ing everything and getting more than one persons eyes on things'. True, especially for big packages like GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, Xorg, or LibreOffice. Sometimes, I get trigger-happy. But I really shouldn't, well unless it's a hobby project on GitHub. > Note (for everyone), some of the biggest impacts are caused by the > smallest commits. > > The idea of a 'trivial update' needs to be related to the dustbin, and > we're still hearing it often. +1 I've had "trivial updates" that broke things, both in and outside FreeBSD. I've had code broken at my $DAYJOB, and that a Microsoft SaaS product (not a household name product like Windows or Word, but still). I was a major Tor contributor from 2017-2020 and had bad patches that broke things or add bugs get in, and that with Tor being very security-focused. And hey, it's not like I'm pulling a University of Minnesota "research project" where the goal is to intentionally add bugs to the Linux kernel. -Neel