182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
johannbg at hi.is
Thu May 7 21:00:16 UTC 2009
On 05/07/2009 08:32 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, as you just pointed out yourself, F11 testing is nonfunctional as
>> yet. But the bigger problem is that putting stuff into -testing seldom
>> accomplishes anything, at least for my packages. I think I might
>> possibly have gotten one bodhi comment across all the times I let stuff
>> sit in -testing until nagged; I have certainly *never* seen anything
>> pushed by the karma mechanism. If maintainers decide it's a waste of
>> time, there is not a lot you can say against them.
>>
>
> I eat testing religiously. I eat so much testing in fact, that I
> can't easily sort through all the associated bug reports that I could
> be testing for all the packages that I don't commonly "actively" use.
> To know what is currently from testing on my system I have to run my
> own yum/repoqueries with testing disabled looking for packages not
> from regular updates. That's a real pain..and it still doesn't help me
> figure out what I should be testing and reporting back on
> specifically. So basically I end up reporting regressions if
> anything.
>
> What I need to be more helpful is a way for my system to inform me of
> the current testing packages I have installed...and the specific
> things I should be testing with regard to them. I todo list of sorts.
>
Agreed But...
Given the experience from maintainers that give change log entries like
"Update to" "Upstream release" etc.. which leave's testers with ?
I'm not seeing those maintainers being able to fill in what to
specifically check or test
( Good change log entries usually gives us a good hint what to look for
or test )
JBG
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