Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: > > For most bugfixes, the user doesn't notice at all. When a user gets a > > bugfix on something they've hit, they think "oh, that's nice, Fedora fixed > > it", but they don't really care whether it cam Monday or Friday. For every > > regression they hit, they think "ARRGH, this Fedora crap. All I did is > > update and now it's broken and I can't do what I want!" The impact on the > > user's productivity and attitude isn't the same, and they can't be treated > > the same. > > One thing to consider: while from a psychological standpoint, a regression > is indeed perceived as much worse than an unfixed bug, from a technical / > practical standpoint it's actually the smaller issue: you can rollback to > the version of the package before the regression, you can't rollback an > unfixed bug as there's nothing to roll back to!
Given that we don't provide an easily accessible user-friendly rollback mechanism, I don't know that that's actually applicable to the general case, though. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
