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

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Wed Mar 3 16:09:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:02:51AM -0500, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 07:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> > No, because updates may depend on previous updates to work properly. We 
> > can't possibly test or support all possible combinations of updates.
> 
>  We can't _now_ ... because of packagers like you who want to release
> lots of updates with no or almost no testing!

Afaics, nobody objected to test updates more. But afaics they only
support so far is %check in SPEC builds, which is not much support after
all. But with AutoQA this will become better.

>  If we had less updates, that changed less things and required more
> testing before pushing them to users ... this would be entirely
> possible.

Less updates mean more changes per update or you have more buggy
packages, because updates usually fix bugs.

Regards
Till
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