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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by Cerium on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:40PM (#29446026)
> Don't let alerts grow unbounded

This seems an infrastructure extension of treating compile warnings as errors.

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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by astrange on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:55AM (#29448065)
Which is probably a mistake when some warnings are compiler bugs and some are difficult-to-impossible to fix. Or if you don't control the compiler being used.
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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by karmakaze on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:17PM (#29451378)
That's why we have 'ignore' type annotations/pragmas/etc.
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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by rixed on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:37AM (#29447018)
"Page an engineer for any blip in the radar" is the equivalent of treating compile warnings as error.
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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by Cerium on Sunday December 05, 2021 @10:24AM (#29449924)
If you as a company refuse to ignore the warnings your only choice is to drive them down to as low a level as possible which maximizes the value of future warnings.
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