Bodhi 0.7.5 release

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Jun 30 19:37:11 UTC 2010


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On 06/30/2010 03:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> writes:
>> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yes I can.  I have two critpath packages that are in testing with
>>> security bugs, both pretty small and easy to test, and both still have
>>> karma zero.  That seems to me to be adequate proof that there's not the
>>> manpower out there to do this.
> 
>> Have you actually asked anyone to test it? Or even considered
>> *mentioning the names of the packages* so maybe someone here could help?
> 
> I mentioned libtiff in my first comment in this thread.  The other one
> is libpng.  But in any case, are maintainers supposed to have to scare
> up testers on their own?  Especially for packages that are supposed to
> be so central as to be critpath?  If there aren't testers coming out of
> the woodwork, this scheme is doomed to failure.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane


A suggestion: when critical path updates hit updates-testing, a
notification should go to both devel at lists.fedoraproject.org and
qa at lists.fedoraproject.org to encourage testing.

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