Bill Nottingham wrote:
To put it a different way, a large regression for our users far
outweighs
tha cost of any number (heck, even hundreds) of bugfixes having to wait
a day, or two, or even a week.
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!
Kevin Kofler