On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:35:56AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> ...and actual QA, from the professionals and volunteers on the
QA team,
> who are very good at finding bugs pre-release but currently do zero QA
> on our updates because it's an unmanageable rolling stream of a
> bazillion separate updates. With batched updates, you can test a batch
> with the same overall criteria used for releases to see if it's
> botched. That's the advantage of batching over simply extending the
> amount of time spent in updates-testing.
I've not seen that proposed anywhere, I'm not sure QA has the
resources to actually do that.
It was part of Spot's proposal at FUDCon Lawrence and we talked about
it more at Flock Charleston - where if I remember right, several people
from QA also said they didn't have resources to do that).
At the moment the time is a week, basically I don't see any real
proposal to extend that overall, just to batch updates out on a Monday
(not sure that is the best day if no one tests over a weekend). Most
of the updates that go out quicker than a week are due to receiving
the explicitly requested amount of karma.
I'm not set on Monday; that's a fairly arbitrary suggestion. Shouldn't
be a weekend or Friday, though!
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader