Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “bugs”
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Monty says: Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs)
This is just nuts: something stamped final should not be this full of fail. Monty's got a great roundup of what went wrong, and as you might expect it's the classic case of letting suits and marketing schedules run software release. I thought Open Source was supposed to put the power back in the hands of the technocrats…
The source of the e1000e corruption bug [LWN.net]
For some reason I love reading postmortems of obscure bugs. This one doesn't disappoint.
PyBugz - Python Interface to Bugzilla | liquidx
Python-based command-line front-end to Bugzilla.
Importance of bat houses
It's early summer in the Midwest, which means it's time to start the annual hunt for ways of keeping away the #$%ing bugs. Bat houses sound like the most eco-friendly solution.
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Python implementation details
The main part of getting Django working on alternate Python VMs was fixing the various assumptions we made about implementation details of Python.
“Show-stoppers”
Lately a large number of questions posted to django-users have included phrases like “this is a show-stopper” or “this is critical”. I think it’s worth my time to point out that this is a lousy method of getting developers to do what you want. It’s the online equivalent of threatening to take your ball and go home, and is about as effective.
Here, then, some advice on the right ways to get your pet bug fixed quickly.