Lack of update information

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 18:04:58 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 18:47 -0800, Chris Weyl wrote:
>  And all obviated by Fedora policy and practice: we expressly give and
> expect maintainers to exercise their judgement here.
> 
> Unless, of course, we need a Committee of Update Oversight set up...?
> Maybe a new set of highly detailed guidelines, detailing when and how
> updates are to be blessed and released to the great unwashed, or cast
> asunder?

Given that we have maintainers not following the policy, we need to do
something.  By having maintainers mention in the update request /why/
they are issuing an update, it's far easier to spot check and verify.

Trust, but verify.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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