Re: Don't put new packages through updates-testing

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Hans de Goede wrote:

> You know very well that I was not talking about the adding to the wiki, 
> but about the to large number of steps needed to get a package in.

I honestly didnt know that very well.

> And for some reason nobody is responding to my point that when in 
> updates-testing a package cannot be in comps and thus is invisible to 
> those using the tools we advice them to use!

That's a problem that needs to fixed by adding packages to comps when 
necessary.
> I'm not saying QA should be bypassed, I'm saying that delaying packages 
> for a week to allow testing by a non existent team is silly.

By calling the effort useless you making it come true.

> Maybe that reaction was solicited because it seems that those making the 
> rules seem to be disconnected from those doing the work? A typical case 
> of manager syndrome.

Testing for functionality is not desirable and shouldn't be in the 
review guidelines?
> Factors such as? I thought freedom was the great good which we are all 
> working for.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives. There are factors like 
robustness in there. If freedom was the only factor we wouldn't have 
packaging guidelines which guide and therefore limit packagers freedom 
in many cases.

Rahul