Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler(a)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