AutoQA: distro congestion?

Thomas Spura tomspur at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 19 17:53:31 UTC 2011


On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:40:22 -0700
Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 18:30 +0200, Thomas Spura wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:37:25 -0700
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 11:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Some packagers have been observed circumventing the system by
> > > > configuring a karma threshold of 1, so their own +1 vote or the
> > > > first one from an arbitrary tester make it possible to mark the
> > > > update stable.
> > > 
> > > Not...really. The update submitter's own vote should count as 0 (I
> > > can't remember if this has landed in current Bodhi yet). Setting
> > > the karma threshold to 1 cannot circumvent the 'proventesters +1
> > > and any +1' requirement for stable releases; just try it, it
> > > doesn't work. The correct requirements are enforced whatever you
> > > set the autopush threshold to.
> > 
> > I just tried it (ok after the threshold of 3 days in f15) and it
> > worked:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ipython-0.10.2-1.fc15
> 
> F15 is a pre-release and does not have that requirement. Its
> requirement is +1 from anyone - so you're not circumventing
> anything. :)

Hmm, I still think own votes should never count or always. Either you
can trust the packager to not "just +1" it to push it and properly test
it, or you should never trust the owner of the update.
Isn't it?

	Thomas


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