What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Joe Nall wrote:

>>>> The DBus update broke applications not conforming 100% to the spec.
>>>> Unfortunately this update was pushed directly into stable (not
>>>> updates-testing) and so nobody got a chance to test it.
>>> Just to be clear, the direct push into stable is my fault; not Red
>>> Hat's or other DBus developers or anyone else's.  I had originally
>>> listed it for updates-testing, but then changed the update to security
>>> and in a moment of total stupidity also changed the listing for
>>> stable.
>>
>> People make mistakes - which is the point of having procedures in 
>> place to catch them.  Is there any way some additional checks can be 
>> imposed before things hit the public repos?
> 
> Just remember that policies and procedures have a cost. That cost can be 
> deployment latency (whined about frequently), effort to update (how many 
> packages are way behind upstream) or test burden on an understaffed 
> QA/test team. TANSTAFL.

You'd think that the leading edge software developers building things 
that are so important to push out to the public might be able to come up 
with some automated tests that would not impose more human time but 
would at least catch system-killing changes.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com