governance, fesco, board, etc.

[Luke Macken]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:23:17 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> [Jesse to Ralf]
>  
> > I'm sorry you don't like my abbreviated language.  The rest of us don't like 
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This --> is extremely bad form unless you are the official spokesperson
> for "the rest of us".
> 
> > your un-abbreviated extremely rude and brash attitude.
> 
> > Yes, dep checking on the updates tree is something that is in need of work.  
> > It is a feature that is yet to be implemented.  Care to help?
> 
> It has been an advertised feature for a very long time. Several comments
> on bodhi said it would be capable of rejecting packages with broken
> deps. Turns out it can't, because it's a feature that is not
> implemented. And of course, rel-eng (or whoever approves the updates)
> doesn't do any checking of broken deps at all. Imagine this: A package,
> which has been broken for almost half a year, has passed review and has
> been pushed into stable updates. No chance even to run extras repoclosure
> when updates-testing can be skipped so easily.

I implemented closure checking for bodhi a while back, but a week before
F7 was released, we all decided to entirely change the way we create the
updates repository; thus, we have to approach this issue differently
now.

luke