Update/install experience

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 18:16:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:50:59AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>ok, so perhaps it's this planning that I am wondering about, and should
>ask on the test list. 
>
>So, not sure if this is just a rephrasing of this proposal, but:
>
>- All updates need to spend time in updates-testing unless they are
>  security related. 

Sounds like exactly what EPEL does.  I think enforcement is manual
there still, and that isn't going to scale to Fedora.  The change
should be fairly minimal though.

>- All updates must have N karma to push to stable updates. Or some kind
>  of checkoff for QA. 

Code changes already have to be made for the similar critpath QA/releng
signoff.  Hopefully this would just be another simple todo there.

>- updates-testing pushes are daily. stable updates pushes are weekly. 

I could do this right now with no change to any code.  It could also
be done independently of the rest of the above.

josh




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