Proposed udpates policy change

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Tue Mar 9 09:51:31 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> It is the expectation of Fesco that the majority of updates should 
> easily be able to garner the necessary karma in a minimal space of time. 

This seems naive to me.  My experience is that there are few people 
willing to provide testing karma, even for relatively high-profile 
packages.  It took about three months to get as many people to submit 
positive testing results for an httpd F-11 update in updates-testing 
recently.

Regards, Joe


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