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

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Feb 26 15:25:03 UTC 2010


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Nonsense. Such arbitrary rules will only drive off packagers. The field in
> an update request may be empty because the list of bugzilla tickets is
> sufficient and because the package %changelog adds further details.
> 
> It would be wrong to shut the door for everyone just because some
> packagers don't include any info at all. FESCo's first step ought to
> be to send a memo to all packagers. Bodhi could warn about missing
> Notes when no bugzilla numbers have been entered. And if that still
> doesn't help, individual packagers could be talked to.

Yes, there too, it's a people problem, it needs a social solution. Technical 
"solutions" will cause both false positives and false negatives and just 
cause more trouble.

        Kevin Kofler



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