Update pushing and bugzilla workflow

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 11:43:37 UTC 2015


On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:47:45 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 02:37 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> > > Would it make sense to have a composite update type that targets
> > > multiple releases, where (a) newer targeted releases must be marked
> > > stable before older targeted releases and (b) the bugzilla bug is
> > > closed once all of the targetted releases are pushed?
> > 
> > Yes, but most importantly the karma should be shared across all
> > releases so 
> > that they can be queued all at once even if (as usual) nobody
> > bothered 
> > testing Fedora n-1.
> 
> Karma does not always apply across releases; just because an update
> works on one release doesn't mean it works on another. (I've messed
> this up myself, more than once, in the past). There's no perfect
> answer, unfortunately, so long as we don't get sufficient karma for all
> releases.

+1

Current "soundconverter" test update is an example for this.
On F22 it works. On F23 it crashes because of an unresolved libxml2
symbol in gstreamer-python.


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