FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Marcela Maslanova]

----- "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:14:13AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
> >
> >----- "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> 
> >> I think banning stable pushes is the right idea. None of your
> reasons
> >> is
> >> very convincing.
> >> 
> >My packages are rarely tested and I forget them in testing phase for
> a
> >long time. Also fixing BR don't need testing. I simply need push
> >immediately the new/fixed package.
> 
> If nobody is testing your packages sitting in updates-testing, then
> maybe the
> users of that package aren't hitting whatever you're fixing or aren't
> otherwise
> having other issues.  What is the benefit of pushing an update if
> nobody cares?
> 
They don't care about bodhi and probably they don't know about it.

> Also, doing an _update_ to fix a BR seems rather absurd.  If there is
> no
> functional change to the package when doing the BR change, then there
> is really
> no reason to push an update for that.  The same is true for spec file
> comment
> changes, or any other change that has no real impact to the package at
> runtime.
> 
> josh
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