Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sat Mar 27 03:08:01 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 20:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Is that a bug, or a feature?  I thought the entire thrust of Adam's
> proposal was to make bodhi feedback be useful to the maintainer to
> make
> an intelligent decision whether to push the package stable.  Auto-push
> is the exact opposite of an intelligent decision.  I think getting rid
> of auto-push would be a fine idea.
> 
> We should still have the "old testing" auto-nag emails, just in case
> a maintainer forgets that he's got a package sitting in testing.
> I don't see what auto-push gains us though.  (Possibly because I have
> never yet had an occasion where auto-push did anything useful for me;
> it usually never fires at all for my packages, and on the one or two
> occasions when it did, it did the wrong thing IMO.) 

Quite a number of updates go out recently due to autokarma.  It would be
interesting to get some data points from Luke on this.

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Jesse Keating
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