Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Sat Jun 2 08:22:52 UTC 2007


Patrice Dumas wrote:s
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:30:16PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> For simple applications, sure, but for libs, modules and servers? And for
> example when the package consist in multiple commands should them all be
> tested?
> 

Exactly, there are very good reasons why this is a SHOULD and not a MUST. I'm 
sure almost every reviewer will give a program a test run in the simple program 
case / scenarion. Why must everything by regulated with rules, procedures and 
more rules? Why can't we just TRUST each other, I'm getting very tired, sick 
even, of this!

Regards,

Hans




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