fedora stable branch updates Q&A policy

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> fre, 28.01.2005 kl. 10.53 skrev Rahul Sundaram:
> > --- Colin Charles <byte at aeon.com.my> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 19:46 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> > > wrote:
> > > > Personally, i would believe a q&a mailinglist and
> > > a "testing" repo for
> > > > yum could be a good idea, in order to get packages
> > > as good tested as
> > > > possible - as fast as possible.
> > > 
> > > There is a testing repo, its called updates-testing
> > > (look
> > > in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo).
> > > Discussion of that
> > > happens at fedora-test-list at redhat.com as do the
> > > announcements for new
> > > packages
> > > 
> > > However, I don't think many folk test it and QA it,
> > > and it usually gets
> > > pushed out as an update (updates-released) within a
> > > couple of days
> > > 
> > > So, whats your issue with an update  that core had?
> > 
> > 
> > there were several regressions. kernels, gui for
> > firewall with relation to selinux, network manager and
> > so on. I am sure many of them are well know if you
> > search in the users list and bugzilla
> > 
> And now, the openoffice bug. Major one (wrong shortcuts i think it was)

Fix is waiting on releng to get pushed.  Main cause was updating the tarball to 
latest supposedly "stable" ooo-build sources, into which Novell had pushed a few 
broken patches.  Will be more careful in the future, but the 1.1.2->1.1.3 
transition was difficult and people really seemed to want 1.1.3 for some reason.

Dan