Comment 32 for bug 359658

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 13:55 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > On another note, why was this simply not put into jaunty-updates? I
> wonder how many other bugs that i run into on a frequent basis are fixed
> by somebody and simply not given to the users
>
> Because every single fix can't be backported to stable,

What backporting? The dude had a package already created and ready to
go. The only thing left to do was actually give it to the users.

> it would require
> lot of efforts which we would put at fixing new bugs and lower the
> quality of the next versions which create a circle of lower quality

So the current situation, a current release which most users are using,
rife with bugs (that have been fixed and are just floating around in
PPAs even!) is better?

I agree that the next release always needs to be solid too, but the
reality is that the next release is always full of "shiny new" with it's
own set of bugs, so the user only ever has the choice of trading in old
bugs for new ones. There's never an answer to the user that just wants
something that's stable and will receive bug fixes without getting a
whole raft of new bugs.

I guess ultimately, if an organization doesn't have enough manpower to
maintain the current release and develop the next release, then the
organization's goals are too lofty for the resources the organization
has to achieve them.

> Concerning the no bug fixes comment try to compare the number of updates
> you get in both system you will see that you probably get as many bug
> fixed, microsoft doesn't fix any single issue in their updates either

Yeah. Ultimately, I do believe Windows is just as bad as the linux
desktop and would not trade the transparency of linux for the blackbox
of Windows. Some days though, it's very frustrating to be a linux
desktop user.

Evolution is a pig that doesn't scale and plain just doesn't work
(vfolders are still broken). Daily, Firefox 3.5 starts out at a few
hundred MB of memory and by the end of the day (or three) it's consuming
2-3G of memory. And that's just the most visible apps/bugs.

But I digress.