Proposed udpates policy change

[Alexander Kahl]

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On 03/09/2010 12:12 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> ...
> We need to work on making it easier for users to see that there are 
> available testing updates and give feedback on them. This is clearly 
> going to take a while

.. but should happen before the actual policy change takes place. I'm
afraid the impact without proper arrangements won't only be frustrated
maintainers realizing how many weaknesses from parliamentarism (does
your acting reflect the grass roots' desires?) Fedora has to bear but
also loss of distribution superiority with many packages gone or
forsaken by never or far too late being pushed to stable.

QA enforcement works well for businesses were people get actually paid
for reviewing and testing stuff before going out to customers but since
Fedora is (mainly) a community-driven distribution this mechanism should
be provided opt-in / opt-out and enforced only where major system
breakage may occur, coincidentally this is where many users are actually
in place to give Karma (e.g. who doesn't use glibc?).

Why not provide a mechanism to count the approximate number of users for
a package first, coupling this with the minimum Karma automatism - where
low-profile packages are excluded from this by not reaching a minimum
threshold? This approach would be sophisticated, sensible and IMO easily
accepted by the majority of users and maintainers.

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Alexander Kahl
GNU/Linux Software Developer
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