[dbarlett]

I really like jerf's take on it [1]:

    How a project performs today tells you the zeroth derivative of its location.
    Looking at the commit log tells you about the first derivative. How people react
    to Call Me Maybe when its about their product gives you a lot of information
    about the second derivative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10082099

Edit: username

[seiji]

A common response to these has been: "But you're using it wrong!!!!"

If your product is so complex or so ill-specified that full time testers can't make it work correctly, it's probably difficult for your developers to even understand or fix the problems.

We ignore how much of software development has become "it works for me under all of my default assumptions as the developer of the product—ship it," especially when faced with business deadlines and business management focused around business objectives (and maybe not so much around software quality or correctness).

[cwyers]

Something of a quibble here -- MariaDB with Galera Cluster is not Percona's product. Galera Cluster is from Codership and MariaDB is the MariaDB Foundation. Percona does resell Galera Cluster, so they're not an impartial third party, but it's funny to me to see people in this thread asking why Percona isn't fixing the documentation for Codership's product.

[jerf]

    DoubleTakeException: Unexpected pointer dereference in dbartlett's post on
    line 0: got "Jeremy Bowers'", expected "jerf's"

Man that's a weird thing to see unexpectedly....