On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:51, Joe Orton <jorton(a)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.
I maintain some niche packages that almost no one uses/no one would
provide karma for. But if I'm asked for a bugfix, and I do it, I want
the people requesting it to tell me that it indeed fixes the issue and
doesn't break anything else. Why would I bother if they don't care?
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Mathieu Bridon