What current Linux crashes? It works *fine*. I haven't tested it under Windows though, and I don't think it's a big deal it doesn't work properly for 4.0.4.
bug 8369 + bug 8384
The policy is not to do that, simply because you can't force people to do *anything*. They're contributing this stuff for free, you know.
this can be solved requiring tests for *new* functions beeing non-experimental anymore, somewhere in the future all functions might have such tests, surely *forcing* all developers to write regression tests for all their functions is ridiculous
andré