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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