More unhelpful update descriptions

[Johannes Lips]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:32 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Pierre-Yves Luyten <py at luyten.fr> wrote:
> >> Not sure if it makes any sense but maybe could we have something like
> >> "freeze tag changes until desc is better".
> >>
> >> I propose this because testers will not _really_ want to -1 karma, and
> >> as a maintainer it might be a bit hard, but with a good reminder like
> >> "not pushed to stable until desc is better" I would have made less
> >> mistakes
> >>
> >> yes not being reminded is not an excuse and such proposal would not save
> >> time, still I believe it could help more than hurt
> >
> >
> > There is already a perfect example of this.
> >
> >
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11846/selinux-policy-3.12.1-57.fc19
>
> This is also a perfect example of useless "does not fix bug x" karma.
> If it is not *worse* then the previous package there is no reason to
> give it negative karma.
>
If it doesn't fix the bugs, the update should fix, it is appropriate to
give negative karma. Otherwise the bugs would be closed, when it becomes
stable, but won't be fixed.

Johannes

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