The Review Cited a Helper That Never Shipped: Assumption Audits Before an OSS Patch
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A mid-size Python library merged a cache around its parser after a polite, confident review. Continuous integration stayed green because the new helper lived only inside the incoming diff. Two days later a maintainer bisected a production traceback and found the praised name only in review notes. T…
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The Review Cited a Helper That Never Shipped: Assumption Audits Before an OSS Patch