Pushing updates for Fedora 7

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Sat Jun 2 00:10:49 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 06:38 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:07:36AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > >  Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:11 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > >> On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:58:31 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > >>> Is it an enhancement, or a bugfix, or neither?
> > > >> Enhancement (to the distribution)
> > > > It would be easier if the update was a bit clever about new packages,
> > > > and made them bypass updates-testing automatically.
> > > 
> > >  +1
> > 
> > Just because it's a new package means it doesn't need to be tested? :)
> No, because pushing packages into "testing" makes sense when chasing
> specific bugs ("does this version fix kernel bug XYZ") or in case of
> very complex packages (such as the kernel).

It also makes sense in attempting to sustain a stable distribution and
cultivate a team of community testers.

luke




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