Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk
Sat Mar 27 18:04:23 UTC 2010


On 27/03/10 15:08, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 08:19 +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure if your usage policy covers changes to Bodhi, but how about
>> the system emailing the upstream developers (direct and/or email lists)
>> when a release is made available for testing/release and also on any
>> problems found ?
>
> I would be _very_ careful with sending autogenerated spam to random
> people that have not signed up for it. I would expect many people to
> react negatively to it.
>
> Sending a small note along the lines of  'Hey, I'm packaging your
> software for Fedora. How about you mention on the website that it is not
> only available in Ubuntu but also in Fedora'  is a quite different
> thing, and should be done.
>
Yes, you are probably right. But how about an email text entry box to
make it easy to send an email and to encourage this ?


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