On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I sense we seemingly we have a basic divergence on the purpose of
testing.
You seem to understand it as a "delay queue" for updates, giving some
people a chance to check packages and withdraw them when they feel they
need to.
I understand "testing" as "auxiliary repo" taking candidate packages
for
"updates", which generally should only be pushed by request, not "by
timeout" nor by "no receiving complaints".
Even in that case they are meant to go to updates, and in that case
should be, at some point < rawhide when rawhide becomes the next
version.
Having timeouts for pushing from testing to updates has been discussed
in the past, if I recall well, and I think that auto-pushing was not
accepted. However, and if I recall well, there could be some auto-pushing
after a delay when there is enough positive 'karma' for a package (2 people
approving the update if I recall well).
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Pat