Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 2 11:01:10 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:18:37 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:25:04PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Package maintainers or reviewers obviously don't love freeze or QA 
>>>> policies but it is a necessary evil if we are focusing on serving end 
>>>> users with robust software.
>>> It really depends on the package and on the userbase. Sometimes pushing 
>>> packages and waiting for bugreports is the best solution. Once again
>>> it really depends and should be left to the maintainer choice.
>> 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. Bypassing that gives 
noone besides the maintainers any chance.

Rahul




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