Comment by st_goliath

> > Should we assume that every patch was submitted in bad faith and tries to sneakily introduce bugs?

>> Yes, especially for critical projects?

People don't act that way I described intentionally, or because they are dumb.

Even if you go in with the greatest paranoia and the best of intentions, most of the time, most of the other people don't act maliciously and your paranoia eventually returns to a reasonable level (i.e. assuming that most people might not be malicious, but also not infallible).

It's a kind of fatigue. It's simply human. No matter how often you say "DUH of course they should".

In my entire life, I have only met a single guy who managed to keep that "everybody else is potentially evil" attitude up over time. IIRC he was eventually prescribed something with Lithium salts in it.