Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: rp-pppoe

[William Stockall]

If no one is interested in testing the patch, doesn't that sort of imply 
no one really needs it?  Why release untested software?  If someone 
actually IS using the package, maybe they can QA it.  Otherwise it 
shouldn't be released.  It might be possible to add some code word to 
the bug and close it due to disinterest or something.


			Will.

Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 
>> If people want it released, we can just test the installation/updating of
>> it, not the functionality of it or the exploits, and let it go at that.
>> I'd prefer it was tested for functionality, but sometimes that just isn't
>> going to happen, and this may be one of those times.  But anyone can test
>> that it installs without problems, so we should at least do that much.
> 
> 
> Either way, I think the packages which aren't tested in months (xchat 
> and squid also belong in the same category) call for one of the following:
> 
>  1) officially forgetting the update, removing it from
>     updates-testing, and from the issue lists
>  2) specially marking "QA still needed but these are very low
>     priority" updates, or
>  3) just releasing them with lower amount of QA or no QA at all after
>     some timeout (e.g., 6 weeks) and revising if someone complains it
>     doesn't work right.
> 
> As it is, the problem is that the bug issue lists keep getting longer, 
> not shorter.  We should be able to get "rid of" historic and minor 
> updates using some means.
> 
> I don't have strong preference here, but I think 3) would probably be 
> best.  If no-one wants to do (official) QA, we could just release the 
> update if it looks trivial, and fix it later if something is reported to 
> break.
>