Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 2 08:00:16 UTC 2007


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 20:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Not true many reviewers review on the latest stable, it says nowhere 
>>> that a review should be done on rawhide.
>> Review is about guidelines and nowhere in the guideline does it even say 
>> that the fucntionality of the package should be tested. When I suggested 
>> that it be added I got back a knee jerk reaction to participate in 
>> reviews myself.
>>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines::
> 
> - SHOULD: The reviewer should test that the package functions as
> described. A package should not segfault instead of running, for
> example.

I suggested that it the "SHOULD" be changed to "MUST". A package that 
doesnt even start shouldnt be getting past reviews.

Rahul




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