On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 09:02 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Can we please either disable these nag messages or give developers the
> ability to push a package regardless of testing when it reaches nag age?
You have that ability for non-critpath updates, but for critpath the
thought is that updates really need to get tested before they go out.
I've said a few times that I think this could be adjusted for old
releases, on practical grounds. It makes no sense in theory - if
anything, the testing requirements for old releases should be *tighter*,
as there's a greater expectation of stability - but in practice, we just
don't have the test coverage for old releases. Either not many people
run them, or those who do just aren't interested in running
updates-testing and providing feedback.
One thing I noticed was with the updates reports is that the old
updates disappear off the report so in some cases people aren't even
aware they might need testing. It would be good to have an old_testing
section so people are actually aware that they need testing.
Peter