FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Bill Nottingham]

Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at 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