My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
Background updating is absolutely the future.
Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.
Defect-free software does not exist.