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It's cool that the cargo team is embracing formalized postmortems and using them to improve their process. Although I'm a bit surprised by the seriousness of t
by PoignardAzur 3y ago
It's cool that the cargo team is embracing formalized postmortems and using them to improve their process.
Although I'm a bit surprised by the seriousness of the language employed; the post-mortem acts like they've dodged a major bullet, when the worst-case scenario would have been "nightly builds fail for a day or two", which, you know, is a risk you've signed up for if you use nightly builds.
It's important to take even minor failures seriously, but I think we should also communicate accurately how serious they are; treating every failure with maximum seriousness leads to the situation where people say "look at how unsafe Rust is, it has a lot of CVEs!" where almost all these CVEs aren't even considered vulnerabilities in other languages.
- andrewf 3y agoPriority of action items (at the bottom), weighted by cost, is one view of seriousness.