On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-04-02 21:06:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Just to expand slightly on this, the problem you're both poking at is > > that during a freeze, our incentives are directed towards fixing RC bugs > > (because then we can release, which means we can then do what we prefer > > to, which (as you can see in the unconstrained periods), is to package > > new software, new upstream versions and so on). New code tends to be > > buggier than older, debugged code, so it's no surprise that we get more > > RC bugs in the non-freeze periods.. > In general, bug-fix releases (which are also blocked by the freeze) > don't introduce new bugs. Case in point: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Security-updates-break-ownCloud-installations-1834507.html We know from some projects that they have regression testing we deem sufficient to trust that assertion. But I'm not sure it's generally true. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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