Quotes of the week

Current trends are: for every 1000 patches sent there's maybe one patch that has a tad too much information in its changelog - but instead offers good entertainment in the changelog so it's still perfectly fine. 990 patches have too little information. The remaining 9 are just fine.

When trying to review this I went completely crosseyed then fell on the floor.

In a classic computer environment you would want the log filled with notifications so that the user could do something about it. On a phone, settop box, TV set or seatback entertainment system logging is evil. No one who has any business seeing a log message has any desire to see one. It does not matter how important the log message might be.

It's getting harder and harder to have rational error handling at the OS level as application environments move to higher levels and greater abstraction.