On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Eric Richie <[email protected]> wrote: >> It doesn't matter how many people 'vote' on it. We've said time and time >> again, regressions are not something we're willing to just 'accept'. This >> isn't an issue of trading one major feature for another major feature. If >> regressions are going to cause us a support nightmare, it's not worth doing >> yet. Yes, 'yet'. Right now it really doesn't sound like a good option based >> on our already severely limited manpower. ...And if it's going to cause >> support issues when users start to complain that they can no longer chat >> with Yahoo contacts and our only answer is that we removed it? That takes >> even more of our time to deal with. That's not acceptable. That sort of a >> commitment just isn't doable for us based on our current available >> resources.
As I said in another reply; empty slogans such as "no regressions" mean nothing. It's just a way of making engineers (or managers) happy. Sure, if you can avoid them you should, but at the end of the day what matters is the end-user happiness not developers. Moreover, you are assuming it's a regression... What if it's not? What if Yahoo contacts aren't working right now? (as Peter Hosey is suggesting) What if *nobody* has ever filed a bug for Yahoo contacts in MSN? (as I have not been able to find a single bug report). That would only strengthen my claim: it's useless to defend the "no regressions" slogan on a feature nobody cares about. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
