I am honestly worried about a patch with more than 100+ changes in it. The only way to tell if all those fixes work and don't break anything else is to put it on a server. As Iworld said, that is hard with a live site. You can only imagine my trepidation in installing a patch with 200+ bug fixes, not including code changes that are not listed. So that's why I propose releasing smaller patches, less harm can occur.