On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) 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. yum history undo works pretty well. Not flawless, to be sure - but it's not bad for the simple-ish cases. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
