Missing update announcements

[Luke Macken]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:16:16PM +0200, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> Now that FC5 final is out a problem seems to reappear that I thought
> was gone since FC4 came out: FC core updates appear on the download
> mirrors but some of them never get announced on fedora-announce-list.
> 
> Since the release of FC5 the following announcments are missing:
> 
> For FC4:
> anacron-2.3-36.FC4
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-March/msg01335.html

> dia-0.94-13.fc4
Claims to be sent.

> dovecot-0.99.14-8.fc4
Claims to be sent.

> For FC5:
> cairo-1.0.4-1
Developer chose not to have update mail sent.

> GConf2-2.14.0-1
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-March/msg01319.html

> xscreensaver-4.24-2
Developer chose not to have update mail sent.

> gnome-screensaver-2.14.0-1.fc5
Update system was supposed to send, but for some reason it didn't.

> liboil-0.3.8-1.fc5
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-March/msg01684.html

> newt-0.52.2-6
Update system was supposed to send, but for some reason it didn't.

> xterm-211-4.FC5
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-March/msg01709.html

> I've opened bugs for every missing announcements and tracker bugs to
> get an overview. For FC4 the tracker bug is #161106, for FC5 it is
> #188051.

Please file bugs like this against Fedora Infrastructure under the
'update system' component from now on.

> Can someone @fedora or @redhat please look into this issue. I thought
> the process was somehow automated since FC4 came out. It would be
> helpful to get an explanation about the internal process how updates
> are released.

This process is automated.. but where you have automation, you have a
fan waiting to be hit by shit.

The update system already goes out and grabs the url for the archived
update mail, so I'll add periodic checks to make sure that all update
mails that were supposed to go out actually do.

Thanks,

luke