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

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:18:37 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> > Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:25:04PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > > Package maintainers or reviewers obviously don't love freeze or QA 
> > > > policies but it is a necessary evil if we are focusing on serving end 
> > > > users with robust software.
> > > It really depends on the package and on the userbase. Sometimes pushing 
> > > packages and waiting for bugreports is the best solution. Once again
> > > it really depends and should be left to the maintainer choice.
> > Users facing these broken packages might just leave rather than report 
> > bugs. Do you care about that?
>
> Even worse if the users face broken packages that have gone through
> something labeled "updates-testing".

Alteast then they can contribute towards testing. Bypassing that gives 
noone besides the maintainers any chance.

Rahul