The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Tue Nov 16 21:57:59 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:35:49AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:16:41 -0400
> "Clyde E. Kunkel" <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/31/2010 03:18 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > Okay, feedback time.
> > >
> > > Lately, there have been several attempts at urging proventesters
> > > (and not just testers in general) to give positive karma for aging
> > > critpath updates. It also has been decided by someone (or maybe
> > > even a comittee) to spam proventesters daily with
> > > "[old_testing_critpath]" messages for all three dist releases, with
> > > no day to unsubscribe from that (other than leaving proventesters
> > > group, which is what at least one person has threatened with, or
> > > filtering those messages).
> 
> Yeah, I am not sure at all how usefull those emails are. 
> There are a variety of ways to see what things need testing, sending
> emails to proventesters a bunch isn't likely to be a very nice one. 

I've disabled this behavior in git, and will update our production
instance this week.  This spam is unnecessary now that this information
is available in the updates-testing digests sent to the test list.

luke


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