Making updates-testing more useful

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:35 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I have an F10 installation, and have updates-testing enabled, but I
> almost never give any feedback in bodhi, because it is fairly hard to
> keep track of what updates are installed, which of them are in testing,
> etc. 

+1, same reason, cept for the pain of sometimes a breakage that hate
dealing with.

> 
> I think we could make updates-testing much more useful if we had a tiny
> bit of PackageKit integration. Basically, PackageKit should know that
> these are testing updates, and should ask me 'There are ... package
> updates available that need testing. Do you want to test these now ?' 
> For extra points, we could even show a 'report back' link somewhere that
> allows to send comments to bodhi. 


What are general thoughts on how this would work?  You get the testing
updates, install/update, run them, then click on some GUI and enter
comments to be submitted to Bodhi?

And I guess (not to get too detailed into something not created yet)
those updates would stay polluted in the GUI until you make a comment or
remove it yourself (this would help show what you have left to comment
on so you can remember)?

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Mike Chambers
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