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

[Kevin Kofler]

Peter Jones wrote:

> On 03/02/2010 06:15 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
>>>> X11 is particularly dangerous for this kind of changes, given how low
>>>> it is in the software stack and how some code necessarily looks like
>>>> (hardware drivers in particular are always scary stuff). The average
>>>> leaf package is much less propice to breakage induced by minimal
>>>> changes.
>>>
>>> This is just plain bull. High level packages also have one line fixes
>>> that are simple, elegant, and wrong.
>> 
>> They are much less likely though.
> 
> Please provide data to support this bullshit assertion.

Changing the bytes which get sent to some piece of hardware you have no or 
only inaccurate documentation on is much more likely to cause breakage than 
some of the simple changes which are done at application level, like 
removing a hardcoded call to setCheckSpellingEnabled(true) to make it 
default to the system default instead.

        Kevin Kofler