Trying to follow "Preparing a new major release" instructions

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 16:20:14 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:05:32 +0100
> schrieb "deadalnix" <deadalnix at gmail.com>:
>
>
>> 
>> As of regression bugs ? It is unclear what they are (as by 
>> definition, the proposed process make no sense to fix 
>> regressions).
>
> Maybe the definition should be made clearer. The main idea is 
> to never
> introduce new bugs in maintenance releases. In the end the
> contributor / release manager makes the judgement call.

We are far away from having a release manager. And it doesn't 
make things clearer on subject. You basically avoided giving any 
answer to that question by saying someone else should decide.

To me a regression is a bug that exist in version N+1 but doesn't 
in version N. I though this definition was widespread, but 
apparently it isn't as the described process make no sense in 
case of regression.