On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 07:52 +1100, Bojan Smojver via devel wrote:
Quick question about direct to stable updates in bodhi, such as FF
106.0.4 and kernel 6.0.7 that are lined up for F37 right now. Such
updates often end up being in nowhere land for quite some time, because
they skip testing to go to stable directly, but the push to stable
cannot happen for whatever reason.
Would it not be better to get such update to testing in this scenario,
given stable is something that cannot be touched? In other words,
should the algorithm for pushes be changed during such times?
Yeah, this is a good point, though I'm not sure how easy it is to fix.
I've been leaving those updates in -testing for a while in order to try
and be really sure they're OK before we push them stable - we were
reserving the option of shipping F37 with earlier version of the
kernel, GNOME and Firefox in case the newer versions had problems. But
if the updates never make it to -testing, that does restrict the
testing they get.
I just noticed another consequence of this, too: they don't go into the
Silverblue (and Kinoite etc.) testing builds. So if you're running one
of those rpm-ostree bases, you can't really get them. I'm on kernel
6.0.6 instead of 6.0.7 for this reason, as that's the most recent
kernel build that actually made it to updates-testing.
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