Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 17:40:47

Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> What about companies that *do* use Boost? If we are to prioritize our
> efforts to provide the best service to them, should we be fixing
> warnings or improving our testing procedures? Should we be fixing
> warnings in general or working on tickets?
>   
I'll help.  Fixin' the warnings will help them too.  Devote all your 
time to any show-stopper bugs, then when you've shot them, spend a day 
or two to get rid of all of your warnings, then assuming you don't have 
new development to do, if your testing procedures don't do a good job of 
testing, then put 80% of your time into fixing that.  It's just for 
awhile and you'll be happy you did.  It will probably generate a lot of 
new bugs for you, if not it's not doing it's job.  Spend the other 20% 
on fixing bugs starting with the high-priority ones.  Do all this in 
crunch mode for a week or two.  It's a lot of fun when you're done and 
looking back at it later.  When that's done write more code cause you'll 
get bored. 

Of course if you weren't really asking the question and were just 
yanking the guys chain--well it's still good advice;) <grin;>

Patrick