When should a bug be considered as a regression or a release_blocker?

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 21 June 2012, Mark wrote:
> > Nobody said we don't want to release pieces that don't work.  We do
> > release pieces that don't work.  Then those bugs are much more visible
> > and developers (hopefully) have more motivation to fix them. :)
> > 
> > Just my 2c,
> > Jeremy
> 
> Ehhh, that's a very strange reasoning :p That way you could release a
> completely broken KDE SC (like KDE 4.0 was ;p) then developers will
> certainly be motivated to fix it asap. That is bad publicity for KDE
> and a bad KDE image that you should never want to have.

i'm just failing to see connection "a bouncing ball doesn't work with 2 
screens" and "the whole desktop is completely broken"

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Marco Martin