Re: 4.0.5: Merge Request

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Sterling Hughes wrote: > Naturally, but what does waiting 7 (an arbitrary number) of days do to > make the new feature have less bugs. The way I see it, the sooner the > feature is in there, the sooner the bug gets identified the sooner we're > able to fix it, the better. Meanwhile, we can all still be working on > fixing older bugs. Look it's simple. We have x developers and QA people able to fix bugs. For a certain RC we have y bugs. If you add a new feature, you will probably introduce z bugs. Now, x/y is the amount of effort per bug without the new feature, and it is certainly more than x/(y+z) - with the new feature. Simple math. -Andrei The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. -- George Carlin