Need proventester karma for firstboot-1.113-4.fc14 (was: Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed)

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Oct 1 22:56:08 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > "Some packages were pushed to stable before they should have been,
> > therefore we need to make it easier to push packages to stable"?
> 
> Yes! Sure, this sounds paradoxical, but my premise is that NO MATTER how 
> strict you make the requirement for pushes to stable, there will ALWAYS be 
> the possibility that "sh*t happens" and thus a need to be able to rush out 
> fixes to stable as quickly as possible.

And my premise is that we should be making harder for shit to happen, 
and the cases where it *does* should be examined carefully to determine 
the best way forwards. "Force this untested package into stable" isn't 
the best way to do things.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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