starting Fedora Server SIG

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 21:43:36 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 08:30 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
> > 
> > Oh and my general opinion is that the features we should be working on 
> > more than anything else are simplicity, security and stability.
> 
> Yes, why does adding features need to break old ones any more than 
> adding new filesystems or device types would?

Because when you have to account for two codepaths that do the same
thing, it's quite a bit more maintenance and QA burden.  More code ==
more effort to maintain, and 2x more effort to test.

Dan





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