On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:25 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Fedora Rawhide/Fedora N+1
Yes, these need rigorous testing and QA. Policies and tests are being
set in place that will make a better and brighter Fedora future.
However, it seems that the same release-level criteria are eroding down
to stable updates.
Fedora N
Testing is nice, but mandatory on all updates? Before you point at me
claiming I wish to destroy Fedora with bad updates, lets re-hash
everything that has been hashed out the past few months. If someone puts
out a "bad" update, they should be allowed to correct their mistake as
soon as possible - karma or not. Time, nor testing, can catch
everything. This must be accepted.
Fedora N-1
It seems there is an unwritten rule that this release level only
receives bug-fixes only, especially right before EOL. Testing of these
packages is extremely minimal because most QA folk have moved on to N or
even N+1. Are bug fixes going to be missing after EOL due to inadequate
testing to meet the stringent requirements you wish to set?
Fedora's contributors, myself included, are not at a level where we can
provide simultaneous testing of all Fedora releases (including rawhide)
for all packages. Requiring all Fedora releases to sit under one QA
doctrine is asinine. You want suggestions? There need to be multi-level
policies. No two Fedora versions are the same, so why should updates all
be subject to the same policies?
So this is kind of funny. You'd rather see testing become /less/
rigorous as the age of a release grows, and you want the most rigorous
testing done in rawhide. That's quite the opposite of what many of us
are trying to work toward, that is as the release moves from rawhide
into branched into released into released-1 the testing gets harder, and
the chance of breakage gets lower. Users of older releases aren't there
for the fun of it, they need to get real work done, and don't want
updates to get in their way of accomplishing that. We should be more
careful with our older release than anything else.
So I'd love to have multi-level policy, but in my opinion it should get
harder and harder to push an update as the release gets older, not
easier.
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