[Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

[Edward Welbourne]

Mat Sutcliffe (18 February 2017 15:36)
>>> "We plan, and plan, and then plan again. What we don't do is stress
>>> conformance to a plan." - Uncle Bob Martin.

One may generalise von Moltke: plans seldom survive more than a little
contact with reality.  It remains useful to make them, as long as one
remains ready to revise them.

On 18 February 2017 at 20:40, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com<mailto:thiago.macieira at intel.com>> wrote:
>> Hindsight is 20/20. Let's not rehash coulda-woulda-shoulda.
>>
>> The question is only what to do now.

Mat Sutcliffe (18 February 2017 22:37) replied:
> Oh, absolutely. I just thought it might help to understand a little
> more how we got here.

Indeed - when we have to do something we'd rather not, it *is* important
to ask "How did we get here ?" - if only so that we can notice similar
things coming, next time around, and revise plans sooner.  The central
story of Quality Assurance (as distinct from testing, a.k.a. Quality
Control, though it's commonly *called* QA in the software industry) is
the study of how stuff went wrong so as to avoid doing that again,

	Eddy.