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

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri Feb 26 14:22:39 UTC 2010


On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Josh Boyer 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?
>

I think the problem there is most users aren't in the system and probably
don't know / care about testing.  They'll leave that to others, they don't
want to be involved, they just want to use our stuff.

> 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.
>

I agree, and there's plenty of other reasons not to push an update.

	-Mike


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