Re: heaven == hordes of developers

Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

> Thanks, Philip! But the simultaneity isn't too surprising, when you
> think about it. The bug is triggered by the failure of a name lookup
> that normally wouldn't fail at all: if that name lookup usually
> failed, that host name would never make it into the working directory
> metadata in the first place. So the bug was only observable while
> Collab's name servers were flaking out. And once you realize that the
> bug's appearance is due to a (hopefully) transient condition, you get
> pretty motivated to fix it while you can reproduce it.

Who the heck does this guy think he is??! :-)

Just kidding -- welcome back to the Subversion list, Jim. Checking up
on your brainchild to see the nasty teenager he's grown up to be?

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:57 2006