I would argue that when there is no customer relationship, updates can be more lax. I mean, I am working in the software industry. When someone is paying you and you know they are using your system for actual results, you are very careful with your updates.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Neil C Smith <neilcsmith.net@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:31 PM Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@gmail.com> wrote:
In my experience, an update can easily kill your system - and that happened to me more than once.

Yes, and that happens everywhere, not specific to FLOSS.  This is about triaging when and which updates you apply to a working system.  And something for developer to keep in mind too - separation of concerns for security fixes, bug fixes and features.

Best wishes,

Neil
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