RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Nov 20 16:28:50 UTC 2008


Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
> >I'm not sure this scales across 5000 packages. So it would be good
> >to have at least *something* in the guidelines.
> 
> You're assuming that all 5000 packages need fixing.  I doubt that's
> the case.

No, but it's not something you can easily automate (unlike
FTBFS, or broken deps.)

> Also, the bugs need to be filed either way.  So the scaling argument
> still applies and adding a guideline for this is really just unneeded
> work...

If you get it fixed in the guidelines and at the review point, you
eliminate having to scan & file all those bugs later - always fix
issues as early as possible.

Bill




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