On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:49 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Could happen also with security updates. E.g. the recent gnome-screensaver
security update visually corrupted the Fedora and GNOME screensavers. Rather
harmless, but in other cases (e.g. kernel upgrades) a trade-off is made
between number of bug-fixes/new drivers and regression, and -1 votes don't
have an impact.
Making updates-testing mandatory will not result in increased testing.
Some packages just won't see any feedback. I claim that for most packages
real testing doesn't happen before they appear in the stable updates repo.
We have the Critical Path Packages feature already. How about letting
Fedora users vote in pkgdb on how critical a package is to them? The
higher the rating, the more positive testing feedback a package will
require and the more testing the Fedora community will need to contribute.
I think this conversation is derailed by the "must go into
updates-testing first" aspect. This isn't the intention. The intention
as I see it is that updates must be tested before they go to stable.
Getting karma in bodhi is a way to prove that testing, and can be done
even with skipping updates-testing.
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