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

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 3 18:13:52 UTC 2010


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Your testing group will *never* be able to test much more than a very
> tiny subset of use cases -- Let them test their limited testing
> scenarios, but keep them out of the rest of testing.
> 
> => Instead of slowing down things by deploying a testing group, speed up
> things by fixing bug ASAP and ban "FIX UPSTREAM" (Like you are usually
> doing).
> 
> It might be news to you, but experience tells this kind of strategy
> converges towards "stability", in mid-terms.
> 
> Your strategy leads to over-all less testing, more bureaucracy and low
> quality.

Strong +1!

> What do you expect? I consider you [Seth Vidal] (and a couple of other
> further members of FPB and FESCO) to be gradually running down Fedora,
> e.g. by advocating ever more regulations, installing more and more
> committees, and by trying to suppress the community.

Back in the day I thought it was just you, but these days I've gradually 
come to realize that you are right! :-(

        Kevin Kofler



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