Negative karma for missing update descriptions?

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 02:47:22 UTC 2013


On Jul 14, 2013 6:21 PM, "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote: > >
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:59 +1000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > Getting back on
topic, I propose the wiki page be modified to say that > > karma only
depends on whether the package update works or not, > > irrespective of the
update description. A 0 karma comment can be > > dropped, but not a -1. > >
Another instance: > >
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11668/dvd >
+rw-tools-7.1-13.fc19 > > The update has got -3 karma for descriptions.
This will *never* reach > users and fix their bugs in this state!

Huh? The maintainer fixed the description and I just gave it the last +1 it
needed to autopush stable. This worked exactly like it was supposed to.

> Adam, I think this has gone too far now :( > > A clear set of
guidelines/policy on update descriptions and whether > karma depends on
them needs to be put in place before a war breaks out.

So far the only standard being enforced is that the contents of the update
description not be "Here is where you give a description of your update."
That's not really that unreasonable.

-T.C.
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