Update/install experience

[Paul Frields]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Dennis can speak to this better then I can but as I understand it several
> people try to go around the policies and go straight to stable
> immediately, even after it's been explained to them.  Bodhi itself doesn't
> quite have that workflow built into it so I think at times dennis and the
> packager have gotten into a "It's stable" "It's testing" "it's stable"
> fight.

I actually did this once myself, inadvertently, because I didn't
understand the workflow (it was a new package). I guess technically it
wasn't a fight but more like a tug of war you don't realize you're in
at first. :-)  But I think the discussion is getting away from the
topic a bit.

Paul