More unhelpful update descriptions

[Adam Williamson]

On 2013-07-02 21:32, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 14:54 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote:
>> 
>> There is already a perfect example of this.
>> 
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11846/selinux-policy-3.12.1-57.fc19
>> 
>> Dan
> I went through updates-testing looking for placeholder text (and will
> never be doing that again, it's not fun). Of the 422 updates currently
> in F19 testing, 12 have the placeholder text as a description:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-12227/youtube-dl-2013.07.02-1.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-12197/skrooge-1.7.1-1.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-12191/libmwaw-0.1.10-1.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-12148/perl-Tapper-4.1.1-2.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11891/mingw-libusbx-1.0.15-1.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11846/selinux-policy-3.12.1-57.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11820/bacula-5.2.13-12.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11668/dvd
> +rw-tools-7.1-13.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-9454/openstack-quantum-2013.1.1-5.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-7077/salt-api-0.8.1-0.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-6012/dnf-0.3.3-3.git91ba5e0.fc19
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-6947/vboot-utils-20130222gite6cf2c2-3.fc19
> 
> This one:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-7094/liblangtag-0.5.0-1.fc19
> probably should also not be released
> 
> Some of these have been sitting in testing since April, so a bit of
> extra delay in resubmitting these updates should be tolerable.

I do sometimes wonder if we should have an auto-push for updates that 
sit in testing for *months*. It's not a dumping ground; if you 
explicitly don't want an update to go stable for some reason you should 
probably un-push it until it's ready...

By this point it seems to be the case that, realistically, we are never 
going to reach the auto-push threshold on some updates. And most updates 
get submitted with the default +3 auto-push, even though it's perhaps 
not appropriate for all updates.
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