----- "James Laska" <jlaska(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hey gang,
I'm failing when looking into the list archives to review our
previous
conclusions on this topic. I know we talked about this before, but I
can't find the threads.
Weird, I think we did discuss it, I even think of some ascii art showing
possible problems. But I found just this, nothing more:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/000982.html
The more I think about the upgradepath test, the more I come up with
scenarios where I (as a maintainer) would want to know the
upgradepath
result for my updates in 'updates-testing'. I recognize there might
be
some weird policy issues here, perhaps we need to get clarification
on
this from FESCO?
I have search through whole fedoraproject wiki and a lot of pages talk
about upgrade path, but none defines it exactly. Therefore we could ask
FESCo about exact definition, yes, that's probably a good idea (to have
some solid background for what we do).
The main question is whether we want to have upgrade path constraint
fulfilled when dealing with updates-testing repositories and what exactly
it means in this case. Does it mean upgrading from F12-updates-testing to
F13-updates? Or does it mean upgrading from F12-updates-testing to
F13-updates-testing? We don't know, and that's the problem.
I'll write another email talking about the problems that may arise.
I know there is also the potential that an update in
'updates-testing'
fails during functional validation, and never lands in 'stable'.
Isn't
this scenario covered by also scheduling upgradepath for bodhi
'updates'
requests?
Sorry for coming back to this topic, I think I need some re-educating
on
what 'upgradepath' means.
First of all, I'd like to have my patch accepted, if possible. That should
put into a consistent state - 'updates' checked correctly,
'updates-testing'
not checked at all. Right now we are in an inconsistent state.
Also I have some more patches coming for upgradepath test, so pushing into
master would save me some trouble.
When we are in a consistent state, we can unleash the debate about the
updates-testing problem :) In a following email I'll sum up the main problems
that arise and what we can do about it.
Since Will is now on PTO, do you think I can push this into master, James?