On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
Currently the usage of updates-testing repository for proposed updates
to a release is entirely based on the package maintainer and in many
cases seems to be arbitrary for the end users. Can we have a policy to
ensure to that all the updates have a week or so of testing period in
the updates-testing repository with the exception of security updates
which go through a shorter duration of testing?. It might also be better
to have some consistency in between providing updates for major
revisions of packages. KDE got a major update while GNOME and Firefox
didnt in Fedora Core 4 as an example of current status.
While the current amount of feedback that we receive from end users on
the packages in updates-testing repository is low to non existent, it
would be better to encourage usage of that and provide interested
testers a chance to send in feedback rather than releasing it
immediately to the updates repository leading to potential regressions
more rapidly.
I second that.
The lack of FC package update policy is a real pain in the back side.
The KDE 3.5.x release backlash was just an example of why such a policy
must be set.
Might I further suggest that a message will be sent to
fedora-testing/fedora-users once a package enters update-testing?
At least in my case, when I see such a message in fedora-testers
(usually kernel/udev/openoffice) I do my best to test it and report
back. I assume that posting this info in fedora-users will encourage
others to do the same.
Gilboa