2012/1/3 Frédéric Delanoy frederic.delanoy@gmail.com:
Might be difficult to explain to "plain" users though. Some already struggle performing a regression test (most won't even bother), let alone understanding the fine details of what a regression really represents.
The original thread starter excluded, I don't usually have much of a problem explaining things to users. You'll always have a couple of exceptions, but as a general principle there's probably value in the idea that people will act about as stupid as you treat them.
I'm also not sure the data really backs up the idea that most people don't bother with a regression test. On http://source.winehq.org/regressions it's about 256 with commit ID vs 70 without, and the ones without probably tend to stay open longer. Granted, sometimes someone else does the regression test instead of the original reporter, but I don't see that as a big problem.