On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 14:10 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
My package in question (mdadm) is only used in certain
circumstances,
but if it isn't right, systems fail to boot. I can certainly see why
something that can render a machine unbootable should be critpath.
However, because only a few people use it, testing is sparse at best.
I think probably more people use it than current testing indicates, and
we should do a better job of getting more people involved in testing.
I'll get one or two testers actually testing the package, but I
won't
know until a release is made whether or not it truly works for the
masses because it isn't until then that I hit enough critical mass to know.
That being the case, I test the package fairly rigorously myself. But
this process doesn't take that into account. I test far more things
than you get with a few people just doing smoke tests, but the smoke
tests are actually the gating factor. If you changed the process so a
maintainer can indicate they've done their own fairly extensive testing,
that would satisfy me. But that also opens the door for abuse, so you
would have to watch maintainers once you enabled this ability.
I've posted in the thread earlier that I'd actually like to do this,
others seem opposed however.
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