critpath approval process seems rather broken

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Apr 11 01:39:21 UTC 2011


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:19:26 -0700,
  Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are based on 
> stable, not testing.  I think that's something we need to address.  It's 
> probably still useful to have nightlies based on stable, but I think 
> it's rather vital to have images created with the updates in the queue.

The nightlies are intended to be made from stable, so that they are more
likely to work and near releases (including test ones) corrsepond to 
the upcoming release.

> So, yes, -testing is the default for f15 installs, but the problem is 
> you have to get 15 installed first, at which point you can't test the 
> live image/installer part of the critical path, since you are now in an 
> installed environment, not a live image/installer.

There may need to be special instructions for testing things that get included
in the initramfs to get them tested.


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