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by skybrian 4705 days ago
That's needlessly vicious. You don't need a wall of shame. Just report the bug back to the original programmer and they'll feel bad enough as it is.

Also, generally speaking, it's not one person's fault. At the very least they also have a reviewer who should have caught it.

What actually happens in a healthy organization is that someone writes a postmortem going through all the steps leading to the bad outcome, along with a plan to make fixes at multiple levels to make sure nothing like it happens again.