Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 21:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> All large software projects have thousands of bugs.
> 
> Yep - and somehow *continue* to have thousands of bugs, all the time.
> Intrinsic in your argument is an admission that new releases always
> cause new bugs too, otherwise surely there'd be no bugs left in KDE by
> now, after all these releases?

Not really. Bugs are not always discovered immediately.

In addition, not every new bug is a regression. Often, new bugs are bugs in 
new features which the old version didn't have at all. In that case, the bug 
doesn't actually break anything that worked before.

        Kevin Kofler