short window between fedora-release update and resuming of updates-testing

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/19/2010 04:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 00:24 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>   
>> Yes, the broken decision was to enable updates-testing by default for 
>> prereleases and we should never do this again. It just can't work, because 
>> updates-testing is like the Red Pill: once you're on it, you can't get off 
>> anymore. The fedora-release update which disabled updates-testing broke many 
>> user setups, suddenly unable to install packages due to dependencies.
>>     
> Pre-release users, you mean. Who ought to be ready to deal with this
> sort of thing, or else they shouldn't be installing pre-releases. Full
> refunds available, etc. I'm not horribly bothered about it, really, now
> we know it happens and can spot the symptoms.
>   

While I understand the decision behind enabling updates-testing repo by
default, I think it should be turned off much earlier,  perhaps during
the beta release phase.  Due to the workflow I follow,  one of the
problems of having it enabled by default till very late in the release
cycle is that once I get the update running on my system, I sometimes
forgot to push the update from updates-testing to updates repo for some
of the packages I maintain.  That was partially the reason why a major
deja-dup update didn't go in sooner. 

Rahul