Pushing updates for Fedora 7

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Sat Jun 2 00:27:57 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:30:10PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:32 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> > 
> > My biggest question about the whole QA stuff is: while some packages are 
> > nice desktop applications with menu entries, many (most?) new packages 
> > are going to be somewhat obscure libraries, plugins, perl/py modules, 
> > i.e. things that are difficult to test. For example, if i push a new 
> > version of libgnomeuimm26 to updates-testing, will the QA folks know 
> > that the only way to test that is to actually test gcdmaster, workrave, 
> > referencer and wp_tray ?
> > 
> Obviously not. Which is why the corresponding internal tools used for
> RHEL errata have a field where the engineer is supposed to fill in QA
> test instructions. Bodhi doesn't have that (yet ?)

That's a good idea, I'll throw a task into bodhi's trac for it.  I have
zero experience with the RHEL errata tool, so I don't really know what
it offers; are there any other features that it has that you'd like to
see in bodhi?

luke




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