FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Thomas Janssen]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> I would like to collect feedback on this issue. If you want to disable
>> direct stable pushes, why? Could there be a less radical solution to that
>> problem (e.g. a policy discouraging direct stable pushes for some specific
>> types of changes rather than a blanket ban)? On the other hand, if (like me)
>> you DON'T want that feature to go away, please provide valid use cases.
>
> Stable pushes are useful for new packages, particularly "non-core"
> new packages.
>
> Also many, many packages get precisely no comments in Bodhi, even
> allowing for two weeks of so-called testing.
>
> In general, FESCo should trust packagers to do the right thing, and
> encourage people to test the packages in updates-testing and provide
> feedback to Bodhi.

Indeed. But maybe packaging (contributing) will be made that awful
that people stop to continue.

If there're some packagers, doing stupid or bad things, then remove
them if they cant/wont learn to do it right. But IIRC that was already
mentioned.

-- 
LG Thomas

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