no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]
Benjamin Smith
lists at benjamindsmith.com
Sat Feb 11 08:21:40 UTC 2006
On Friday 10 February 2006 21:32, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > This makes it even more complicated. points? how many are enough?
> > What makes one package more critical than another? How ambiguous could
> > this be?
>
> I agree that this would complicate the process further.
>
> I have proposed something simpler, and still do:
>
> 1) every package, even without any VERIFY QA votes at all, will be
> released automatically in X weeks (suggest: X=2).
>
> exception: at package PUBLISH time, the packager and/or publisher,
> if they think the changes are major enough (e.g., non-QAed patches
> etc.), they can specify that the package should not be
> automatically released.
>
> 2) negative reports block automatic publishing.
>
> 3) positive reports can speed up automatic publishing (for example: 2
> VERIFY votes --> released within 1 week, all verify votes:
> released immediately after the last verify)
Pekka,
I've proposed (1, 2) before... That's why I've moved my last remaining FC1
systems to testing - I've just not had problems with the updates, and I'd
rather run a secure but occasionally unstable system than an insecure but
"stable" one.
Oh, and I've had ZERO problems with stability...
-Ben
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