[darcs-users] darcs patch: add exception to haskell_policy.sh for D... (and 61 more)

[Trent W. Buck]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:35:53PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, David Roundy wrote:
>>> Performance patches are *always* low priority, and should therefore
>>> should only be made when they are both certain to be correct
>>
>> Please could you clarify what you mean by that? Much optimisation
>> work will never be "certain to be correct". For example, the darcs
>> annotate cache work will inevitably be too complicated to satisfy
>> that criterion.  Even the recent series of patches I submitted, which
>> were all quite "local" in some sense, still needed some testing to
>> shake out bugs, and there's certainly no absolute guarantee that
>> there are none left.
>
> My first and absolute priority is to make darcs as bug-free as
> possible.  I understand that changes are necessary, and that any
> change may introduce a bug, and therefore every change needs to be
> carefully considered, what it's benefits are versus its risks.

Do user complaints like "darcs is too slow and we are switching to
git/hg" constitute bug reports? ;-)