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Comment by kristopolous | Hacker News Reader

They mean wall time and not work time. That's pretty aggressive

It’s not only unreasonable - who expects/needs this? - is also unsustainable. What happens if 5 bugs get filed on a Friday. Might be good when you have few users in the beginning but long term I don’t see it happening.

This might force you to think about quality before shipping stuff. A win for customers.

At a certain point it'll hamper ability to ship features quickly, as you go from having to think about the 80% of uses cases, to spending a significant chunk of time anticipating and fixing all kinds of very unlikely edge cases.

I guess it's preference, but I'd rather ship quickly and cover most of my users, and respond to any bugs that do surface (and there's every chance they won't) for obscure issues that probably won't really impact revenue.

They are apparently a database company though.

"Your code has to be good enough that you don't get a large flow of bugs." The article also says it took them a year to get to this point.

That's faster than average

Ah it’s that easy, just write good code without bugs.

I wonder why the rest of the industry continues to produce so many bugs, didn’t they figure this out?

Because the rest of the industry is managed by people who don't care about code, and puts people who become coder after a couple of udemy videos in position of charge

They are not writing code without bugs. But the rate of incoming bugs varies from project to project. For mature projects without a lot of churn the bug rate decreases over time.

They may also be in a position where they can afford to delay releasing a feature until all bugs are fixed. Most teams on the other hand ship with known bugs, because a feature with bugs today will make more money than a feature without bugs tomorrow.

I mean, it's a way to set priorities. Even it turns out not to be an iron clad guarantee, having taken that pledge means when people end up taking too much time fixing bugs, it's already consensus that that's not acceptable, and it'll presumably be much easier to make the case to allocate resources to address it.

Well, their website is Dolt Hub.

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