Right. So "Regression" here isn't terribly meaningful - almost every update will change or remove some functionality in a way that annoys somebody. By this sense, changing from GNOME 3 to Cinnamon would be a regression. It's a term that doesn't add anything to the conversation, and people should stop using it.
Posted Jan 26, 2013 21:18 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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By this sense, changing from GNOME 3 to Cinnamon would be a regression.
No. If things is mostly the same but has different name people expect that some features will not be available. When something is billed as "pure upgrade" but it removes features - people become quite vocal. Is it fair? No. But that's life. Deal with it.
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Posted Jan 26, 2013 21:29 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
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Someone defines the term, I explicitly say that I'm using that definition of the term, and then you tell me that I'm wrong? How about disagreeing with the definition, instead?
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Posted Jan 27, 2013 16:16 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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We can agree that cinnamon has fewer regressions, right? And that they are spending a lot of time reducing potential regressions that their users might experience?
Sounds like a meaningful conversation to me. Where's the confusion?
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Posted Jan 28, 2013 22:51 UTC (Mon) by sorokin (subscriber, #88478)
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> almost every update will change or remove some functionality in a way that annoys somebody
In GNOME -- yes. In other reasonable projects that is simple not true. I would say that for most projects that is not true.