Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 22:33:30 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:06 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 18:51:23 -0700,
>   Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Koji, I guess. Sometimes people do a scratch build in Koji for an
> > individual tester to try, before pushing it to a wider user base in
> > updates-testing.
> 
> I sometimes like to give bodhi type feedback to koji builds that haven't
> been pushed yet. For example last weekend I tried out a flakey udev
> build and would liked to have given it a big -1. I did file a bug. But
> maybe a karma posting would have gotten more notice. As some people got
> burnt after I had already filed the bug.

It must have gone through updates-testing at some point, so why didn't
you -1 it at that point?

It wouldn't really make sense to have voting on all Koji builds, as
there's no policy on what you can use scratch builds for; they can be
used for builds that are known to be broken.
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