* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> These things *are* fairly rare (most bugs by _far_ are of the trivial
> stupid kind), but some of those things can stay around for a long
> time, and it can take months of different people reporting similar
> problems until somebody finally puts two and two together and sees the
> pattern.
one common pattern i've noticed is bug dependency. In some areas we need
to fix a series of 2-3 increasingly less trivial bugs to get enough test
exposure, tester confidence and developer attention to trigger (and fix)
the _truly_ bad bugs.
That's why agressive regression elimination (and prevention) is so
important IMHO - trivial regressions can totally block testing of
certain areas of code, and with an agressive 90 days release schedule
every day counts.
Ingo
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