Comment by svieira
3 hours ago
We actually have a constant in our codebase to mark such bugs. You found one? Put it inside an:
if (PREFER_EXISTING_BUGS_TO_NEW_ONES) { theOldBehavior(); }
else { theNewBehavior(); }
Then, if we ever go to do a v2 of the thing, we can review these existing "load bearing bugs" and see if they make sense to change.
We do this via feature flags as well whenever "fixing" a non-trivial bug