[drzaiusx11]

It really is incredible how frequently these occur in everyday codebases of sufficient size.

[svieira]

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.

[drzaiusx11]

We do this via feature flags as well whenever "fixing" a non-trivial bug