STS-134
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It's not really a workmanship issue if it was done to specifications. The design itself is the issue, not the workmanship. It's like a blueprint for a house that specifies that the roof should have a hole in it (through which rain pours into the living room). Workmanship problem? Nope, done to specifications.The person I was responding to said it's not a design defect so I was responding to that.
As for the warranty I would have thought a repeater module is a material and/or that the assembly process not covering the holes would be a workmanship issue.
Now the question is, why was this in the specifications in the first place? Was it an accident on the part of the people doing the design or was it intentional? If, as @JVINFL suggested, it is not actually a design defect, then that means it was not mere incompetence or an accident on the part of the design team but an intentionally malicious act (which is even worse).