From a Bug blooms a thousand Features

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When a severe bug hits a product, you have to fix and release quickly (at least I feel I have to). But, especially in the beta phase, it's fairly humiliating to release with one single ticket resolution.

Call it pride, pair pressure, ego, unwillingness to face reality, teenager knee jerk, I just can't release a beta with one single lonely closed ticket.

This is what happened on Hibernate Search. Beta2 introduced a severe bug in object retrievals. So I ended up coding a few new features, fixing a few additional annoyances to hide the obvious.

That's one of the things I like in the Software as a Service model, transparent bug fixing, but that's another story.

Obviously, such aggressive release cycles can only work as long as a Product Manager don't look over your shoulder.

Who said bugs were a bad thing? ;-)

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