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

[Les Mikesell]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Bugzilla? Where do you want people to report bugs? If you had a fixed
>> window before updates would be picked up on the machines with the more
>> conservative setting people might be more anxious to report them.
> 
> I think Bodhi would be a better place. For example we could do something
> with negative karma for stable updates, right now it just gets ignored.
> 
>> But I wouldn't envision marking an update as 'bad' although that's an
>> interesting concept itself.  I was thinking that there would be a
>> specified time when all normal updates enter the repository, followed by
>> a time when only critical bug and security fix updates could be added,
>> so towards the end of that interval, packages that hadn't been replaced
>> with 'better' updates would automatically be assumed 'good' and it would
>> be fairly safe to update machines where you want less risk.  Then a new
>> cycle of 'new feature' updates could start.
> 
> How's that different from updates-testing?

This would be to catch the things that get past updates-testing but can 
be fixed quickly.  You'd probably have the default set to pull all 
updates (which will keep a big base of users) but once you have a 
machine running nicely and doing important work you'd have a setting to 
make it be more conservative there.  I don't think it's as nice as 
repeatable updates, but it would not take much infrastructure change.

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   Les Mikesell
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