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-- Cut here -- Delivery-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:08:08 -0500 From: Stephen Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I take it you don't think you got what you payed for? Steve Meier Karel Kulhavy wrote: >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:36:12PM -0800, Stephen Meier wrote: > > >>Has anyone else noticed that the number one cause of software bugs is >>programmers? >> >> > >Try to not make the bugs in PCB in the first line. Then you are going to >have small number of bugreports and less complicated bugreporting system >will suffice. > >How to do it: >* Have every interface between things specified >* Keep specifications up to date >* After writing a piece of code, read it once more over from top to > bottom like a novel is being read. > >Having doing lately almost nothing than filing various segfaults into the >bug database from work with PCB makes me thing the PCB is being >developped in the style "quickly write something made with a hot needle >and then if someone finds some bugs, repair them". > >This approach is *BAD*. > >If you are going to choose between less features and less bugs and >more features and more bugs, choose less features and less bugs. >Adding a feature is easy. Removing a bug not. > >Bugs are not normal, as well as stealing or killing people is not normal. >Bugs are evil. The fact that things like Bugzilla exist doesn't make bugs >any more normal, as well as existence of punishment doesn't make stealing >or killing any more normal. > >Cl< > > >
