On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:27:59PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> Regressions happen whatever policies are done. Imagine a specialized
> package that hasn't any tester besides the maintainer (though it
> has users), this was the case for most of the packages I maintained
> in Fedora. A user wait for X days to have a package pushed that fixes
> a bug. It introduces a regression which is detected by a user who
> uses the stable release and not updates-testing. Should the users
> wait X days before the regression is fixed?
1) You're ignoring any possiblity of improving the testing
Even if testing was improved this situation could still happen.
2) What in the policy defined a number of days?
I am doing a guess about what criteria could be used if there
is nobody ready to test.
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Pat