Re: Updates-testing on firstboot

[Luke Macken <lmacken redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:03:42AM -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:29:44PM +0100, Chris Brown wrote:
> >    The current situation with updates-testing is that bug fixes tend to get
> >    pushed straight into updates. Updates-testing gets little coverage so few
> >    devs or testers use it. Its a vicious circle. A cursory glance show some
> >    packages are over 5 months old.
> 
> I'm hoping that Bodhi[0] will eventually help improve updates-testing by allowing
> testers to get more involved with the whole process.  Once testers can
> provide positive/negative feedback to the devs regarding updates, I think
> that it will become much more utilized.

Also, the fact that we're going to be forcing all non-security updates
to go into updates-testing first will help as well.

luke