Don't put new packages through updates-testing

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:10:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Data that back up these assumptions are found in historical evidence that
> "updates testing" has not been a success so far. Both Core developers and
> users have complained about it [*].

Developers have pushed updates inconsistently into updates-testing and 
Fedora Extras didn't use the system at all so there wasn't much of a 
incentive for me to request interested people to participate.  If there 
is a good consistent document policy on updates-testing it is much 
better for developers and end users regardless of what the policy 
actually is.

> You participate in so many public communication channels, you must
> have seen such topics, too (yes, another assumption ;).

Yes. I have seen more complaints from users and much less from developers.

Rahul