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by inamorty 33 days ago
"Load bearing bugs"
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drzaiusx11 33 days ago
It really is incredible how frequently these occur in everyday codebases of sufficient size.
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svieira 33 days ago
We actually have a constant in our codebase to mark such bugs. You found one? Put it inside an:

    if (PREFER_EXISTING_BUGS_TO_NEW_ONES) { theOldBehavior(); }
    else { theNewBehavior(); }
Then, if we ever go to do a v2 of the thing, we can review these existing "load bearing bugs" and see if they make sense to change.
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drzaiusx11 33 days ago
We do this via feature flags as well whenever "fixing" a non-trivial bug
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