Casey Dahlin pÃÅe v Ät 16. 12. 2010 v 15:50 -0500: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:16:53PM +0100, Miloslav TrmaÄ wrote: > > Especially minor changes that don't bring any measurable benefit > > (perhaps making the system "cleaner" or making programmer's life more > > convenient) but require time from each user to adapt are better > > abandoned than implemented. > > Mirek > > Measurable != significant. Great programmers and architects have an instinct > for something called "defect avoidance." You can't measure it, since the unit > would be "number of bugs/bug-related outages and problems which never > happened." Depending on your instincts on what that value might be, "cleaner" > could be the single most important thing to improve in the entire distro. The trouble is that we can't all agree on the immeasurable benefits (but we can probably agree on the existence of the measurable costs), which is why the monster threads about systemd arrive so regularly. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
