Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 3 16:07:27 UTC 2010



On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:42:57AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Till Maas wrote:
>
>>> Are there even any  metrics about how many bad updates happened? For me
>>> bug that can be fixed issuing an update are a lot more than regressions
>>> with updates or new bugs introduced with updates. If updates are slowed
>>> down, this will get even worse. Especially because the proposal is to
>>> use time instead of test coverage as the criterion to push an update to
>>> stable.
>>
>> Actually the proposal is time AND test coverage.
>
> I mind have misunderstood it, but afaics it only says that it will be
> tested, because it spent time in updates-testing, but this is not even
> true nowadays, even if packages stay long in updates-testing.

Having more time opens us up to more testing days and in the near future 
autoqa to help us bounce obviously bad things.

-sv



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