Proposed udpates policy change

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:17:01PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > 2) It is impossible to ensure that functionality will not be reduced 
> > > without sufficient testing.
> > Your axioms are obviously wrong.  An update which simply bumped a
> > release number would have the same functionality.  Since you claim
> > these are axioms -- self-evident truths that form the basis for
> > further argument, anything else you wrote is unsound.  Sorry :-!
> What guards you against changes in the buildroot, non-deterministic 
> compiler bugs, cosmic rays and the like? The point is to test the 
> binaries that are being pushed into the hands of the users.

And note that the point says _sufficient_ testing. If the change is just a
rebuild with bumped version number, sufficient testing may simply mean
verifying that nothing _actually_ changed.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences