Proposed udpates policy change

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 23:21 +0100, Sven Lankes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > Before being added to updates, the package must receive a net karma of
> > +3 in Bodhi.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> I don't know what to say.
> 
> If Fesco is aiming at getting rid of all the pesky packagers maintaining low
> profile packages: You're well on your way.

I usually stay away from mega-threads, but well put!

I doubt that even major bug fixes in any of my (small) packages, ever
got more than 1-2 karma votes. Many got zero - not even a vote by the
original bug report owner!

Why am I getting punished because some package didn't get enough testing
(due to the low visibility of update-testing?) before it was pushed into
-updates and caused breakage?

Either we (package maintainers) are qualified to make sane decisions
about our package or we are not. I don't really see a middle ground
here.

I wonder if it's not high time to return the distinction between core
and extra functionality.

- Gilboa