Suggestion with respect to the Fedora Update System

[G]

>  Often the bugs or enhancements come directly from upstream and not as a
> result of tickets in Fedora's bugzilla. Sometimes there's not even an entry
> in the upstream bug tracker either, so it's not always possible to provide
> such references.

True! that but there should be same way to resolve this so that the
test case to be tested is given somewhere as part of the update system
or a link atleast

>  Having said that, I see many updates with no explanatory notes to say what
> the bug or enhancement is, and in the case where there's no ticket to refer
> to I think the notes can fill the gap quite well.

If you take the enhancement mentioned in the mail , i dont have any
clue on how to proceed and that makes it difficult. Probably a note
atleast on what to be tested could obviously make a difference and
that atlteast should be mandatory i feel.

Cheers,
Balaji


On 5/29/08, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> "G" wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I got the following mail from Fedora updates. It says "The following
> > package has been moved to stable from testing". The Karma value
> > corresponding to this package is still zero (mentioned in the below
> > thread). Correct me if i am wrong, if the value reaches 3 its moved to
> > stable, thats how i understood it.  I gave a comment for that package
> > that i am not able to test it because i was not aware what needs to be
> > tested for that enhancement.
> >
> > Apart from this i ve an other problem. Suggestions and Comments
> > Welcome for this problem :) .
> > I browse through the Fedora Updates repository to start testing
> > packages which are under the fedora testing branch, but for some of
> > the packages, i see that its given as an enhancement (like the below
> > one) but i am not able to go ahead testing it because it does not
> > specifiy whats the enhnacement is about. I did notice that there are
> > some bug fixes too made which has got the word "bugfix" but does not
> > map to a Bug ID i.e, the Bug ID is not mentioned in the updates. It
> > becomes diffficult to test those packages and give appropriate and
> > correct feedback.I shouldnt give back a report saying that it works or
> > it does not work which might be a wrong test result because i might be
> > testing something but the fix would be for something else.
> >
> > I would really appreciate if you all could help me with a suggestion
> > on this. I went a step ahead by raising a ticket in the bodhi system
> > so that we could have a field in the updates system where in when a
> > packager uploads the packages, a mandatory field on whats fixed if its
> > a bug fix could be stated and if its an enhanement , a small note on
> > what the enhancement is. Will this suggestion work ?
> >
> > This would really help people testing packages from the bodhi
> > repository and thereby make Fedora a real rock solid distro.
> >
> > Thanks for reading this . Hope people don't mistake me for this :)
> >
>
>  Often the bugs or enhancements come directly from upstream and not as a
> result of tickets in Fedora's bugzilla. Sometimes there's not even an entry
> in the upstream bug tracker either, so it's not always possible to provide
> such references.
>
>  Having said that, I see many updates with no explanatory notes to say what
> the bug or enhancement is, and in the case where there's no ticket to refer
> to I think the notes can fill the gap quite well.
>
>  Paul.
>
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