AutoQA: distro congestion?

[Kevin Kofler]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:02:12 +0300
> Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote:
> 
>> E.g. the packages are marked as security updates and whatever the
>> cause, autoqa, missing karma, missing time, for some reason (partly
>> undisclosed as mentioned in my post yesterday) bodhi rejects them.
>> IMO if the packager marks the package as as security update bodhi
>> should stay out of the way and allow a human to decide on pushing the
>> update or not. ATM bodhi cuts me off the pushers.
> 
> Sadly, this is not practical.
> 
> Several points to note:
> 
> The various update streams flow differently. For a normal day,
> EPEL4/5/6 might have about 2-20 updates. It might be practical to look
> at all these for a quick glance. f14 (updates and testing) has around
> 30-50ish. f13 has around 5-20, and f15 has too many to even count. ;)
> It's just not at all practical to have the people signing the updates
> look at each one for critera.

The human making the decision should be the maintainer. That's what the 
maintainer is for.

> We have had security updates that caused considerable problems.

We've had one such instance in years of Fedora.

        Kevin Kofler