depcheck test (was Re: measuring success)

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jul 6 19:10:58 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 19:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote:

> Essentially using a different flag is just re-using the code used to
> flag a package as critpath-approved only with a different name.
> Therefore it should not need that much more effort.
> 
> Btw. using the "path of least resistance" to implement policy
> changes seems to be what makes the new workflows suck for package
> maintainers, e.g. with the change in place using a auto-karma value of 1
> will become 0.

I'm with Till, this particular bit seems to be a hack too far. I'd say
until we can get a proper mechanism in place, the most the test should
do with current Bodhi is file a comment saying the depcheck test passed,
with 0 karma (not +1).
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