Development quotes of the week

One regression fix since 1.19.4 (mea culpa), and fixes for CVEs 2017- 12176 through 2017-12187. C is a terrible language, please stop writing code in it.

If I had a magic wand, I would use it to find all of the -1 reviews in gerrit for typos, wording clarifications, markup corrections, variable naming disagreements, and other minor issues and turn them into +1/+2 votes with a follow-up patch from the reviewer to fix the problems.

My father spent from 57 to 83 on his five acres on a hilltop. He puttered in his ham shack. He ran for county planning commissioner and lost. He cared for my aging mother. He never wrote another line of code.

Part of that is on him (about which more later), but part is on the system you and I are still part of. The beliefs that prevent experienced programmers from contributing at their full capacity are still out there. It’s up to us to call them out.