Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming's Path of Frustration

Re:Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming... by kazinator on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:12AM (#40009568)

You have to do both, on different branches. Rearchitect things in one branch, fix nothing but bugs in another. Forward port all the bugfixes you can from one to the other.

Though: version control ... 1992 ... haha.

Hey, that's when that unwieldy behemoth ClearCase was released.

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Re:Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming... by pjc50 on Friday April 12, 2024 @04:33AM (#40010512)

I think that approach would be doomed even in the present day. Multiple "legacy" release branches is very hard to manage. Only the very largest such as Microsoft can do it, and they clearly hate doing so and want to push to rolling releases like everyone else.

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Re:Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming... by worthless-trash on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:25AM (#40013287)

Red Hat / RHEL does this on all EUS release every day, on RHEL 6,7,8,9.

Tell me more about how you would subscribe to a MS "bugfix only channel of updates" ? This is my first time hearing about that.

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Re:Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming... by pjc50 on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:31AM (#40013364)

> bugfix only channel of updates

Isn't that what's meant by LTS?

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Re:Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming... by worthless-trash on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:28AM (#40037573)

Do you just 'install' the msi, and then thats LTS ?

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