Update notification period change

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On 03/18/2011 06:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, folks. So, just wanted to kick off a discussion regarding this bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688305
>
> The default update notification period has been changed for GNOME in F15
> from 1 day to 1 week (security updates still get notifications
> immediately). This is a change that's come from upstream, the GNOME
> design team, who consider it a UI design issue. QA and FPL think this is
> at least partly a distro policy issue as well as / more than a UI design
> issue, and think we should consider whether we actually want to make
> this change for Fedora, and if so whether we should have a different
> update period for the pre-release cycle. QA certainly feels that 1 day
> is more appropriate than 1 week during pre-release time.
>
Should we tie this with the Bodhi package acceptance criteria? e.g. on 
stable releases, maintainers have to wait a week before packages can be 
moved to the next stage, while in F-15 it's 3 days.

Then again, important fixes often get karma-promoted, and maybe we don't 
want to make testers wait for the entire duration. But they can always 
manually check for updates.

Regards,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim

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