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

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
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>> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Will Woods wrote:
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>>> So I think it would be shortsighted for FESCo to refuse to even discuss
>>> a policy about what manual testing is currently required, since any plan
>>> for improving the quality of the distribution will always require some
>>> amount of manual testing.
>>
>> agreed.
>
> What kind of tests need to be done always manually? The only ones I can
> think are tests for the appearance of applications or tests that require
> specific hardware. But in the general case, I do not think that for
> every package manual testing will always be required, except while
> creating new automatic tests. E.g. if you have a library package with
> good unit test and behaviour test coverage and tests for RPM
> metadata, what do you want to test manually?

I have a series of basic functionality tests that I run before each yum 
release to make sure that there is nothing unforeseen in an update.

I don't think such a set of tests is ridiculous, but I do admit it is 
complicated.

-sv