Fedora QA ? - Re: What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:33:43PM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > Given that Bodhi updates bugzilla reports when updates are pushed, 
> > maybe it can be made to update them with karma and comments too?
> 
> could be an interesting beginning, yes.
> 
> > If there were PK integration, there could be lots of interesting ways 
> > to allow the user to interact with the update system, such as 
> > single-click karma reporting back to bodhi, displaying the karma on 
> > updates to the user so they can choose whether to update that package 
> > or not, setting a preference that says somthing like "wait until karma 
> > gets to +3 before defaulting the checkbox to enabled to update this 
> > package".
> 
> The reporting should be always possible, as it maybe turns later out if an
> update was broken or not. And how a about yum? If it's PackageKit-only it
> is not really an advantage, given that unexperienced users won't rate such
> updates anyway usually (at least from my point of view).

PK already has features that yum does not--it shows metadata about 
updates that yum doesn't, for example.

Experienced users can use the bodhi web interface or bodhi 
command-line client (not sure the latter can do karma).