182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 05/07/2009 08:32 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> Well, as you just pointed out yourself, F11 testing is nonfunctional as
>> yet.  But the bigger problem is that putting stuff into -testing seldom
>> accomplishes anything, at least for my packages.  I think I might
>> possibly have gotten one bodhi comment across all the times I let stuff
>> sit in -testing until nagged; I have certainly *never* seen anything
>> pushed by the karma mechanism.  If maintainers decide it's a waste of
>> time, there is not a lot you can say against them.
>>     
>
> I eat testing religiously.  I eat so much testing in fact, that I
> can't easily sort through all the associated bug reports that I could
> be testing for all the packages that I don't commonly "actively" use.
> To know what is currently from testing on my system I have to run my
> own yum/repoqueries with testing disabled looking for packages not
> from regular updates. That's a real pain..and it still doesn't help me
> figure out what I should be testing and reporting back on
> specifically.  So basically I end up reporting regressions if
> anything.
>
> What I need to be more helpful is a way for my system to inform me of
> the current testing packages I have installed...and the specific
> things I should be testing with regard to them. I todo list of sorts.
>   

Agreed But...

Given the experience from maintainers that give change log entries like
"Update to" "Upstream release" etc.. which leave's testers with  ?

I'm not seeing those maintainers being able to fill in what to
specifically check or test
( Good change log entries usually gives us a good hint what to look for
or test )

JBG

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