On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 10:51 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:31:31 +0100, Matthias wrote:
> On 29/11/10 19:08, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:40 -0500, James Laska wrote:
>
> > Things that some people see as problematic are:
> >
> > * Having to wait a week to push an update if you can't find testing
> > * Testing being required for packages with automated test suites
> > * The delay to security updates which is introduced by the testing
> > requirements
>
> Testing would get much easier, if packagers could provide some test
> cases. The packager could send mail to -devel or -testing to get some
> testers.
Sounds backwards to me. Given the life cycle of a bug, there is activity
in bugzilla prior to the maintainer developing a fix. Plus, bodhi adds
update notifications to bugzilla. If I were to expect someone to test the
fix, it would be the bug reporter to be the additional tester.
Proven tester testing is not really about testing the bug fix contained
within an update; it's more about making sure the update doesn't cause
regressions, especially regressions that would negatively affect the
rest of the system.
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