hush - you're not superhuman, you can't be expected to have noticed something that's taken a number of years for someone else to notice.
so you have to stand up and announce very loudly that you've been a muppet so people know they need to upgrade.
IME, the anticipation of public embarrassment is always worse than the event itself. You've announced it now and you've not grown horns or had people blank you in the street. You're OK. I imagine you've had very few emails saying 'you idiot how could you miss this' and many more saying 'thank you for fixing this so quickly'.
feeling that some number of million users have been depending on that code for years, including almost all my friends in particular, and that I, personally, have let every single one of them down.
Guilt trips don't really help - though I know I hit myself with them a lot of the time. You made a mistake, you've fixed it, you're not going to make the same mistake again so let it go and move on. And, to be honest, every one of us who uses PuTTY does so with the knowledge that like all computer applications there may be bugs/security holes in it somewhere. We chose to take the risk that your code is less buggy/security risk prone than the alternatives (hmm I'm not entirely sure what the alternatives to PuTTY are, but that's beside the point).
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so you have to stand up and announce very loudly that you've been a muppet so people know they need to upgrade.
IME, the anticipation of public embarrassment is always worse than the event itself. You've announced it now and you've not grown horns or had people blank you in the street. You're OK. I imagine you've had very few emails saying 'you idiot how could you miss this' and many more saying 'thank you for fixing this so quickly'.
feeling that some number of million users have been depending on that code for years, including almost all my friends in particular, and that I, personally, have let every single one of them down.
Guilt trips don't really help - though I know I hit myself with them a lot of the time. You made a mistake, you've fixed it, you're not going to make the same mistake again so let it go and move on. And, to be honest, every one of us who uses PuTTY does so with the knowledge that like all computer applications there may be bugs/security holes in it somewhere. We chose to take the risk that your code is less buggy/security risk prone than the alternatives (hmm I'm not entirely sure what the alternatives to PuTTY are, but that's beside the point).
*adds upgrading PuTTY to to-do list*