[Test-Announce] Proven tester status

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 09:15 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 08:46 -0500, Vincent L. wrote:
> > Thanks for the stats and information.   
> > 
> > How big is the gap in testing.   
> > 
> > Is there a significant amount of package releases etc walked back
> > because after they passed minimum time in QA and were published it
> > turned out they were broken ?   Ie. percent wise or some other metric
> > or in the absence of that a gut assessment.
> 
> No, we almost never revert updates. I can't recall a single instance of
> it happening recently. When an update breaks something the packager
> usually simply ships a quick fix as a subsequent update.

To clarify - it's quite often the case that an update is discovered to
be broken *in updates-testing*, but it's quite rare for a badly broken
update to make it past updates-testing (it does happen occasionally),
and in that case we almost never revert it, we instead fix it with a new
update.
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