Proposed and major updates policy

[Mike A. Harris]

Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 09:27am, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>I second that.
>>The lack of FC package update policy is a real pain in the back side.
>>The KDE 3.5.x release backlash was just an example of why such a policy
>>must be set.
>>
>>Might I further suggest that a message will be sent to
>>fedora-testing/fedora-users once a package enters update-testing?
>>At least in my case, when I see such a message in fedora-testers
>>(usually kernel/udev/openoffice) I do my best to test it and report
>>back. I assume that posting this info in fedora-users will encourage
>>others to do the same.
> 
> 
> Third.
> 
> Also, I would suggest a new mailing list, fedora-testing-announce, be created.  
> Some of us do not follow Fedora Testing or Fedora Users lists because there's 
> just too much traffic.  I have a hard enough time keeping up with the Fedora 
> Developer list in addition to the other lists.  Having such testing package 
> availability announcements would make it much easier for me to pick up 
> testing packages and try them out.
> 
> Thanks to all package maintainers for all the hard work on updating packages.

IMHO, testing announce messages should just go directly to
fedora-test-list.  That way it is guaranteed all "testers"
get the email.  My definition of a tester being someone who
is subscribed to the fedora-test-list of course. ;)

I don't have the stats, but I would guess that if they were
separate lists, less people would be on the announce list than
on the test list, and there's already a deficit of people using
updates-testing.  To increase that, announcements should hit
as many people as possible.  Perhaps posting them to redhat-list,
and fedora-list too. ;)   Ok, maybe that's too much..  :)


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