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What |Old value |New value
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Issue type|PATCH |ENHANCEMENT
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SBA->NN: Thank you for the intro. Some further explannations:
I change this issue from "Patch" to "Enhancement" as well. Background:
This is not a bug fix, it is a general change in behavior that needs a
finalised specification.
The specification itself is not in Status "final" yet.
This is not pea-counting of an obsessed tester. No way! It is _NEVER_ a matter
of the amount of changed bits in the code. This kerning change affects EVERY
USER, ALL THE TIME when he/she uses the office and looks at a document with
text.
I do this (QA) for a wghile now and we have experienced so-called "show stopper
issues" in the midst of every milestone in the past years. And YES, SOME of them
were based on code that came in "through the back door" without anybody taking
notice of the danger that a "small, efficient, cool" change means once you dig
deeper into it or have the one devastating scenario you did not think of when
testing the functionality. Regressions are a common thing and they must be found
BEFORE a small, cool change makes it into the code line.
Therefore we have set up several rules how the chaos of "everybody believing
this is a must-get-in-NOW" can be tamed.
I am are well aware that there are people out there who see all QA as a
hinderance of a free and creative programmer. On the other hand, to compose a
software of this complexity without tight rules will cause "many tears".
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