Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Again, one key to providing good quality packages is "not let
bugs hit
your users".
In many cases this means, "pushing upstream updates" because upstream
has fixed some known bugs, Fedora users haven't reported yet.
It would be utterly silly and grossly negligent to demand package
maintainers to only provide updates on "bugs having hit Fedora users".
Right. It's not because a bug is not in our Bugzilla that it won't affect
our users. If upstream fixes a bug, there must have been a bug in the first
place, and only in rare occasions it doesn't affect Fedora, usually it does.
Users typically are interested in seeing "their bugs" fixed
and are
testing their use-cases, but are not "testers in general".
I.e. they typically will pickup patches or packages and try them in
their use-cases, but they will not regularily pull the "testing repos".
Indeed, only few people systematically use updates-testing. If it were
suitable for general consumption, it would be called "stable". :-)
So once again we're in violent agreement. :-)
Kevin Kofler