how long do packages stay in testing?

[Luke Macken]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:26:51PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Jack Tanner wrote:
> > The testing repo has packages as old as openldap-2.3.30-1.fc6.1.src.rpm 
> > 30-Nov-2006 and sysklogd-1.4.1-42.fc7.src.rpm 11-Dec-2006. Is there any policy
> > about how long packages should stay in testing? AFAICS, if a package shows up in
> > testing, it's either good and should get pushed to updates in a little while, or
> > it's bad and it should get yanked from testing. Right?
> 
> It's very hard to remove packages from testing after you've
> decided not to release them. So some people just leave them there,
> apparently.

At the moment there is no formal policy for updates-testing. This is
going to change for Fedora 7 where testing updates will eventually require
community approval before making their way to the stable repo.

There are some flowcharts[0] describing the update process on the bodhi
wiki.  Suggestions for improvements are welcome.

luke

[0]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/wiki/DesignTesting