Proposed udpates policy change

[Joe Orton]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:20:20PM +0100, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:51, Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> It is the expectation of Fesco that the majority of updates should
> >> easily be able to garner the necessary karma in a minimal space of time.
> >
> > This seems naive to me.  My experience is that there are few people
> > willing to provide testing karma, even for relatively high-profile
> > packages.  It took about three months to get as many people to submit
> > positive testing results for an httpd F-11 update in updates-testing
> > recently.
> 
> If the issues this update was solbing really bothered them, they would
> have provided feedback earlier.

Hah, right.  Back in the real world, most users expect free cake and 
complain if they don't get it.  I would not be optimistic about 
resetting expectations there.  For most updates I do, I end up doing the 
testing myself and ignorning automated karma pushes.

Regards, Joe