Followup again on "'int' for 'latest'" patch

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:40:10 -0600
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:40:52 -0500
> Ralph Bean <rbean at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello again, following up here on this patch:
> > 
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/buildsys/2015-January/004470.html
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/buildsys/2014-August/004344.html
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084583
> > 
> > Should I make some changes?  Is the patch generally unacceptable?
> 
> I do not know that we want to approach things in that manner. I would
> much rather put automated qa and testing in place post build and pre
> release and just ship things known to be not broken. though there
> could always be cases that slip through.

I wonder if we could do the same thing we are doing with deltas now. 

ie, ship 2 versions of every package (current and previous) and then
over time remove the previous ones only keeping more recent ones. 

So, say you have foo-1.0-1.fc23 and a foo-2.0-1.fc23 is pushed. Keep
both for a week, then remove foo-1.0-1.fc23, with the idea being that
if there is some horrible problem with the package people are likely to
notice in a week or two and immediately downgrade, but after a few
weeks the likelyhood is that the new version is ok. 

Just a thought. 

kevin
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