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

[Hans de Goede]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

No, but often close to it (assuming our buildsys does reproducable builds, 
which AFAIK it does).

I regularry get crashers reported where upon debugging, the cause is obvious 
and so is the fix -> close to 0 chance of regression.

> 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?

For non obscure crasher / application not starting bugs I would rather get the 
fix out asap then wait a few days and watch dozens of duplicate bugs pop up.

Regards,

Hans