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> There is no way for a human being to remember the complete list of
> functions with sanity checks and which don't have sanity checks.

I understand also this software development challenge.


> Markus has introduced quite a few bugs as well

I have only found other opinions about specific update suggestions.
Which of such "bugs" are real mistakes?
Are you looking for a better consensus?


> (people have so far managed to catch his bugs before they were committed).

Would you like to refer to any concrete software developers?


> He so far has resisted any suggestion that he should manually review
> his patches before sending them.

I am performing source code review to some degree.
My approach does partly not fit to your expectations.

Regards,
Markus