More unhelpful update descriptions

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 03 juillet 2013 à 09:44 +0200, Johannes Lips a écrit :
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> 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.

That's not what the guidelines say :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Update_feedback_guidelines#Update_does_not_fix_a_bug_it_claims_to


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Michael Scherer