The golden rule of software quality

This post summarizes a rule of thumb that I commonly cite in software quality discussions, so that I can link to my own post to save time. I have taken to calling this the “golden rule of software quality” because the rule is succinct and generalizable. The golden rule is: Prefer to push fixes upstream instead of working around problems downstream … and I’ll explain implications of this rule for a

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「問題が発生した時は根本（上流）を直せ、下流を直すのは一時的なworkaround」と開発者が割と当たり前に理解しているやつだが明示的に文章になったものは初めて見るかもしれない

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“Prefer to push fixes upstream instead of working around problems downstream”