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

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

"Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> writes:

> Clearly, bohdi/bugzilla/pk interaction is not good enough to collect
> the kind of feedback needed for the karma system to work. And bohdi
> should get smarter about identifying packages that need this
> feedback. Critical path is a good first approximation but what would
> really help is some heuristic about how much breakage a bad package
> can cause : how many other packages depend on it (dependency
> metrics), how long is has lived (has it been in Fedora for years of
> imported the week before), was it even in the default install for
> some people, etc.  [...]

+1.  Extra tooling should help here.

Consider also the possibility of adding in download statistics into
the 'slow-down-cowboy' heuristics: use records that particular
update-testing RPMs have been downloaded as evidence that they are OK.

- FChE