Re: Breaking eggs and making omelets

2016-09-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> This was a good week. We got a number of patches from the community and > four different submitters introduced breaks. I needed to refine at least > three patches. I think its a good time to share my philosophy, and open it > up for debate. > I need to add an addendum... Make that "I needed

Re: Breaking eggs and making omelets

2016-09-21 Thread Zooko Wilcox
You're doing a great job, Jeffrey. I'm happy to see Crypto++ being maintained so diligently, and with such precise attention to detail. Thank you! On Sep 22, 2016 3:47 AM, "Jeffrey Walton" wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This was a good week. We got a number of patches from the community and > four di

Library testing (was: Breaking eggs and making omelets)

2016-09-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> Sixth, learning from mistakes and is not license to lower expectations. Each > time I broke the code, I looked beyond the instance problem and questioned > why it happened in the first place. I then placed controls to stop future > breaks. Of all the controls that can be placed, we achieve the hi

Breaking eggs and making omelets

2016-09-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, This was a good week. We got a number of patches from the community and four different submitters introduced breaks. I needed to refine at least three patches. I think its a good time to share my philosophy, and open it up for debate. First, Master needs to be mostly stable. Users