Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 15 17:59:24 UTC 2007


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>>> If the fix is more invasive, then using updates-testing is fine 
>>> ofcourse, but for important, simple (obviously correct) fixes, I 
>>> would like to be able to skip updates-testing.
>>
>> Even "obviously correct" fixes have caused major regressions. Your 
>> packages would reach updates after sitting in updates-testing for a 
>> small amount of time. What's wrong with it?
>>
> 
> That small amount of time. There should be a balance between the chance 
> for regressions and the time spend in updates-testing. If the chance for 
> regressions is close to 0, the time spend in updates-testing should be 0.

The chance for regressions is pretty much never zero. End users would 
very much be willing to wait a small amount of time if gives testers a 
better chance to check for issues and improve the quality of updates. 
What is the big rush anyway? Have you read any of the recent discussions 
in fedora-list or forums lately?

Rahul




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