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It’s largely a good thing but it’s unreasonable not to mention the “flood of bug reports about issues that have since been fixed” effect that comes with manual
by danielheath 6y ago
It’s largely a good thing but it’s unreasonable not to mention the “flood of bug reports about issues that have since been fixed” effect that comes with manual updates.
This has burnt a few projects pretty badly (especially where distros have packaged an old version and never updated it).
- catalogia 6y agoTaking power away from users to address that inconvenience may be the status quo in the proprietary software industry, but it's totally over the line for user-respecting FOSS software. Not least because, once a developer acquires that power over users they very frequently succumb to the temptation to abuse their userbase as involuntary beta testers for half-baked bullshit which users struggle to opt-out of.
- lmm 6y agoTaking power away from the users and putting it in the hands of upstream maintainers is pretty bad, but putting it in the hands of distro maintainers is even worse in my experience. Upstream maintainers are at least the people who develop the software directly and deal with the bug reports.
- catalogia 6y agoTraditionally, distro maintainers do not take this power over users for themselves.
- michaelmrose 6y agoMake the user report their current version in the reporting dialog. Automatically close all reports for prior versions and inform the user to update and revisit.