This is honestly the most concerning part of all of this. You're saying you knew that this exact bug was present up front and still decided to release it?
replyThis basically invalidates the entire premise that it was an innocent mistake. It's impossible for me to believe that you actually thought that people wouldn't care about 100% of their commits being attributed to Copilot even when it was never used. Either you're misconstruing what you caught with the testing beforehand or your entire development process is tainted, because there's no way that a non-evil corporation would see this default behavior and think that people would be fine with it. It seems far more likely you just thought you could get away with it.
Agreed, this approach feels like folks at Microsoft still feel they have enough karma to burn. It's way past that.
replyI think there is a "ship fast" component here that should be adjusted. Product Management introduced weekly "stable" releases in March, no matter the content.
replySeems that they released it only in some internal / alpha version.
replyThank you. My personal opinion is the idea of weekly releases should be discarded. It's too easy to release broken stuff in non-insiders updates.
replyI think many people agree here.