Re: Patching the VCL


"Kevin Berry" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My own philosophy is that if a CR is a defect it is almost always a high
> priority to resolve it (regardless of reproducibility). If the bug has
> been in existence for a while then the priority gets elevated even more.

There are some dangers with such a philosophy. Assume you have some known
feature work to do, and a number of prefectly reproducible serious bugs, a
handful of reproducible and some old lingering bugs that appear sporadically
and thus will take an unknown amount of time to track down and eradicate.

I will have my team postpone the non-reproducible bugs until the others are
done. Comes down to how energy is best spent in terms of moving the project
forward.

A while back I wrote a little something on bug reporting
http://homepages.borland.com/ecoteam/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Eco.BugReporting

--Jesper


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