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

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> On 03/01/2010 12:48 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
> > I'd also like a policy in place to help us avoid situations like the
> > recent dnssec unpleasantness.
>
> Sure. I'm just not at all convinced that if those packages had sit in
> testing for $ARBITRARY_PERIOD_OF_TIME that they would have been tested
> and fixed.
>
> In EPEL, where there is a mandatory period of "testing" for updates, I
> almost never get Bodhi karma, and if I do, it is only because I have
> been aggressively harassing users to test and give karma.
>

This has been my experience too.  While I like the ability to have a karma
/ feedback system.  In reality it doesn't seem to actually be part of our
package release workflow.

	-Mike