Confluence should be more robust and not blow up when it can't render a web panel

org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getHtml' in  class com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.descriptor.web.ConfluenceWebInterfaceManager$ExceptionHandlingWebPanel threw exception java.lang.StackOverflowError at template/includes/macros.vm[line 1615, column 20]
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.handleInvocationException(ASTMethod.java:351)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:284)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:262)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:342)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach.performIteration(Foreach.java:393)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach.render(Foreach.java:316)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:212)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:247)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:336)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Parse.render(Parse.java:263)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:212)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:247)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:212)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:247)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:336)
	at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:328)
	at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:235)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.util.velocity.VelocityUtils.renderTemplateWithoutSwallowingErrors(VelocityUtils.java:62)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.util.velocity.VelocityUtils.renderTemplateWithoutSwallowingErrors(VelocityUtils.java:68)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.util.profiling.ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator$StreamingResponseWritingStrategy.renderToResponse(ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.java:191)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.util.profiling.ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.applyDecoratorUsingVelocity(ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.java:149)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.util.profiling.ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.applyDecorator(ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.java:89)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.util.profiling.ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.render(ConfluenceSitemeshDecorator.java:71)
	at com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.decorator.BaseWebAppDecorator.render(BaseWebAppDecorator.java:33)