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

[drago01]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> I would like to collect feedback on this issue. If you want to disable
>> direct stable pushes, why? Could there be a less radical solution to that
>> problem (e.g. a policy discouraging direct stable pushes for some specific
>> types of changes rather than a blanket ban)? On the other hand, if (like me)
>> you DON'T want that feature to go away, please provide valid use cases.
>
> I just have another idea: Add the karma value to the repository
> metadata and write a yum plugin to only install packages with a certain
> amount of karma. I just checked that stable packages may still receive
> karma, so then everyone can pre-select packages based on the karma. And
> people for whom the current system works good enough, can disable it.
> And security updates could still be installed using the yum-security
> plugin.

No thanks.

I don't want a flood of abrt bug reports just because a yum plugin
prevents the fix from going to some users.