Bad-mouthing and hostility

[Thomas Janssen]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway
<tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 09:48 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> We're complaining that we can't find 3 users of a single package to provide feedback.
>
> To be fair, I would restate this as:
>
> We cannot find 3 users of a package to:
>
> * Independently know that an update needs to be tested (is sitting in
> updates-testing)
> * Feel comfortable that they are qualified to test it
> * Download and install the update that needs testing (this assumes they
> know where to get it)
> * Perform "testing" on that package, when this is loosely defined at best.
> * Find the Bodhi page for this package update.
> * Create a FAS account if they don't have one.
> * Go back to the Bodhi page for this package update and figure out that
> "Leave a Comment" means "give karma so this package can move from
> updates-testing to updates".
> * Leave a comment.
>
> Gets even uglier when the package isn't an application. How does a user
> know that a library is worth giving a karma vote on? "It installed." "My
> computer didn't catch fire." "Linux still boots."

Wow, perfectly nailed. I hope the Fedora-Tour (work in "progress") can
help us there. Maybe as well some already mentioned improvements for
PK.

-- 
LG Thomas

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