Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 2 11:40:35 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:31:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>>> Users facing these broken packages might just leave rather than report 
>>>> bugs. Do you care about that?
>>> Even worse if the users face broken packages that have gone through
>>> something labeled "updates-testing".
>> Alteast then they can contribute towards testing.
> 
> Users who would "leave" don't try out so-called test-updates anyway.
> 
> An estimated big percentage of those few users, who do try out
> test-updates, won't take the time to report a problem. There's too
> much of a risk of hearing "know thing" or FIXED/RAWHIDE.

We are assuming a lot here without any data to back up these 
assumptions. At any rate I don't think we are going to convince each 
other so I would leave the final decision to FESCo.

Rahul




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