> On 23 בנוב׳ 2015, at 10:08, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote: > >> On 11/23/2015 09:49 AM, Phil Sturgeon wrote: >> The "There will always be bugs" argument is a strawman, nobody is >> saying wait until it's perfect. >> >> People in this thread are consistently conflating "there will always >> be bugs" with "lets just ignore this bug which is 'around critical' >> and crack on because yolo." > > You seem to be confused Phil. Nobody is arguing that this bug shouldn't > be fixed. The question is all about how severe it is and whether it > should trigger another release candidate. > Exactly. And those of you who read Xinchen's analysis of the bug should know that this is not a critical bug, and IMHO, not borderline critical either, especially considering it only affects symbol tables - not arrays.
If every bug of that (relatively small) magnitude delays the release - and prevents the code base from being tested en masse - we'd effectively be putting ourselves into an endless - or at least a very long loop, given the very limited number of people currently evaluating 7.0. As soon as it does get released - we'd have orders of magnitude more people testing it than we have now, speeding up the process (of finding bugs) tremendously. Regarding whether people do and/or should expect 7.0.0 to be production quality -- or whether that's realistic that people would move production workloads to 7.0.0 before 7.0.1 or even 7.0.2 is out - we (as in internals@) can agree to disagree. Zeev
