What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Joe Nall]

On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Colin Walters wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Richard Hughes  
>> <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The DBus update broke applications not conforming 100% to the spec.
>>> Unfortunately this update was pushed directly into stable (not
>>> updates-testing) and so nobody got a chance to test it.
>> Just to be clear, the direct push into stable is my fault; not Red
>> Hat's or other DBus developers or anyone else's.  I had originally
>> listed it for updates-testing, but then changed the update to  
>> security
>> and in a moment of total stupidity also changed the listing for
>> stable.
>
> People make mistakes - which is the point of having procedures in  
> place to catch them.  Is there any way some additional checks can be  
> imposed before things hit the public repos?

Just remember that policies and procedures have a cost. That cost can  
be deployment latency (whined about frequently), effort to update (how  
many packages are way behind upstream) or test burden on an  
understaffed QA/test team. TANSTAFL.

joe