On Dec 21, 2007 9:51 AM, Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
So I think you and Bill are accomplishing the same goal but with different steps involved. The commonality here is that you and Bill can take that goal and given the knowledge of the software you're working with use the appropriate steps to achieve the goal.
How can we express the goal itself, rather than the methodology one might use to meet that goal? If we can express the goal, then we give maintainers the ability to determine how best to reach that goal with their own software.
Isn't the goal to maximize the ratio of potential benefit to potential detriment with each update? How do we help individual maintainers get a good handle on that ratio? And how do we guage if there is a problem in some area in the repository with regard to this goal? It's pretty difficult to make a relative comparison from one software stack to another for different components and know whose doing better at keeping the ratio maximized.
-jef