On 29/11/10 19:08, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:40 -0500, James Laska wrote:
Things that some people see as problematic are:
* Having to wait a week to push an update if you can't find testing
* Testing being required for packages with automated test suites
* The delay to security updates which is introduced by the testing
requirements
Testing would get much easier, if packagers could provide some test
cases. The packager could send mail to -devel or -testing to get some
testers.
>> * allow packages with a %check section to go direct to stable.
>
I think this is a bad idea. Just insert a null- %check section (package
gets a +1 from provenpackager, add a (pseudo-anonymous) +1 vote and
voila: package goes directly to stable.
Testing is costly, in each case. Seems like testing gets suppressed this
way.
Matthias