On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
> How'd it happen? I commented directly in the Bugzilla bugs with the
> link and told the subscribers to the bugs that the package would not
> be issued until some of them tested it and posted feedback to tell me
> their bugs were fixed.
I see why you're doing it, but still, this is essentially blackmailing
users, I'm not sure it's a good plan to follow.
Sorry, I really need to know if my users experience something
different than me before I feel comfortable pushing a package update
out. This is especially true for a package where I personally am
acquainted with a dozen or more users who use it -- meaning there are
likely thousands of users out there affected my update. I'm not being
pretentious about my or my package's importance to those users, just
trying to make sure I don't make things any worse for them if I have
an opportunity to do better.
Turns out my actual text was a bit less stark:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543278#c53
"The sooner we receive feedback, the sooner we'll know whether we can release
this update to the stable distribution. Thanks for participating."
But there was a singular goal, which is to encourage people to try out
the update so we'd have more assurance the problem was indeed fixed.
Paul