Colibricks install#
Colibricks software#
Colibricks code#

Colibricks install#

Just did an Exchange 2016 install as part of a migration to a hybrid 2016/O365 environment. (These are all real problems I've experienced.) Shayer has offered several more possible explanations in the original post. It's blind to the photos that never upload to iCloud, the contact card that just won't sync from my Mac to my iPhone, the Time Capsule backups that get corrupted and have to be restarted every few months, and the setup app on my new iPhone 11 that got caught in a loop repeatedly asking me to sign in to my iCloud account, until I had to call Apple support. Unfortunately, the crash reporter can't catch non-crashing bugs.

Colibricks software#

As a result, Apple software crashes a lot less than it used to. Apple takes crash reports seriously and tries hard to fix them. The crash reporter backend sorts crash reports by matching the stack traces, and those that occur most often get the highest priority. The same stack trace on multiple crash reports means all those users are seeing the same crash. Crash reports are uniquely identified by the stack trace. A stack trace often enables an engineer to track down the crash and fix it.

Colibricks code#

Especially useful is the stack trace, which shows exactly where the code crashed, and more importantly, how it got to that point. Crash Reports Don't Identify Non-Crashing Bugs: If you have reporting turned on (which I recommend), Apple's built-in crash reporter automatically reports application crashes, and even kernel crashes, back to the company. But if no one blinks, engineers continue to work on a feature that can't possibly be completed in time and that eventually gets pushed off to a future release.Дў. Instead, they hope someone else working on another aspect of that feature is running even later, so they reap the benefit of the feature being delayed without taking the hit of being the one who delayed it. But sometimes managers play 'schedule chicken' since no one wants to admit in the departmental meeting that their part of the project is behind. In a well-run project, features that are lagging behind are cut early, so engineers can devote their time to polishing the features that will actually ship. Inevitably some features are postponed for a future release, as we saw with iCloud Drive Folder Sharing. Tight schedules and ambitious feature sets mean software engineers and quality assurance (QA) engineers routinely work nights and weekends as deadlines approach. Overloaded Feature Lists Lead to Schedule Chicken: Apple is aggressive about including significant features in upcoming products. David Shayer, who worked as a software engineer at Apple for 18 years across iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple's bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects, looks at the current iOS and macOS releases and tries to work out why they are so buggy.