Another great update

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 20:47 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>
>> Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you
>> get too many complaints. But make it available for those who want it.
>
> This is not the purpose of updates-testing, it is not an alternative
> update repo. It is there for focused testing of packages you - the
> developer - believe are already ready to be pushed out as updates;
> basically it's where you send your update 'release candidates' for
> others to make sure you got it right. If it works, it goes to updates.
> If not, you unpush it, fix it, and try again. Things should not live
> there.
>

I don't want to repeat myself all the way again. I don't buy this "you
should, you shouldn't, supposed to..." arguments. I have been using
updates-testing this way for a long time and I got nothing but
compliments.

Orcan