On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 13:30 -0800, Chris Murphy wrote:
A considerable reason why any developer with a laptop would pick Windows or macOS these days is because power management is so much better, that it's even considered basic. There is no such thing as a suspend regression bug on macOS - I've never even heard of such a thing let alone encountered it.
I think you're kind of overselling this because you happened to run into a suspend regression this cycle. I've been suspending two laptops and a desktop (with two displays) for the last, like, six years without significant issues. When I ran into an issue with Rawhide it got fixed pretty fast. It's really not that awful.
Of course Apple has fewer hardware-related bugs to deal with. We all know the reasons for that. Even if we blocked on suspend, realistically, it wouldn't magically prevent hardware-dependent issues with suspend. We still wouldn't magically be testing on all hardware, or be any more predisposed to block on a suspend issue on a specific device even if we happened to find it. Your system-specific regression would not be a blocker even if we added suspend in general to the release criteria and committed to the development resources necessary to fix major issues in it.