testing updates-testing [was Re: yum plugin suggestion or yum change?]

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:26:53PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Those are regressions that are far less acceptable than the development 
> tree breakages. Unfortunately the amount of feedback from 
> updates-testing repository is very low to the point that many of the bug 
> reports only start flowing in after the packages have been pushed to the 
> main updates repository.

Yeah, I know. Here at least, we barely have the resources to test the
updates that have made it to the main updates repo. I wish we had more time,
but generally we only look at things in updates-testing if they seem
particularly interesting for some already-known reason.

It might help if packages put in updates-testing were accompanied by posts
to the announce list. (I know they do sometimes get messages here or on the
test list.)

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