On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:26:51PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Jack Tanner wrote:
> The testing repo has packages as old as openldap-2.3.30-1.fc6.1.src.rpm
> 30-Nov-2006 and sysklogd-1.4.1-42.fc7.src.rpm 11-Dec-2006. Is there any policy
> about how long packages should stay in testing? AFAICS, if a package shows up in
> testing, it's either good and should get pushed to updates in a little while,
or
> it's bad and it should get yanked from testing. Right?
It's very hard to remove packages from testing after you've
decided not to release them. So some people just leave them there,
apparently.
At the moment there is no formal policy for updates-testing. This is
going to change for Fedora 7 where testing updates will eventually require
community approval before making their way to the stable repo.
There are some flowcharts[0] describing the update process on the bodhi
wiki. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
luke
[0]:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/wiki/DesignTesting