Fedora 12 updates-testing report

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:30 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:10:37PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 20:44 +0000, updates at fedoraproject.org wrote:
> > > The following Fedora 12 Critical Path updates have yet to be approved:
> 
> [snip 59 critpath updates]
> 
> > Okay, this obviously sucks, and I'm really worried we cannot
> > realistically impose the critpath policy on F12 when we clearly don't
> > have the testing capability at present. We've discussed various things
> > to do about this; for now I propose we remove the critpath restrictions
> > on F12. From a *theoretical* point of view this makes no sense as we
> > should treat all stable releases the same, but from a *practical* point
> > of view, I can't see another way to handle the situation.
> 
> Okay, so it's not *as* bad as it seems.  Due to a bug in the query that
> is used to generate this list, obsolete updates are included as well.
> I ran a fixed query for F12, and there are only 20 unapproved critpath
> updates, as opposed to 59.
> 
>     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/critpath?release=F12&unapproved=True
> 
> Even though it is not as bad as it appears, it is still obvious that we
> lack the testing resources to properly enforce our current critical path
> policies for older stable releases.

Especially since four of the fixes are security fixes.
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