How to calculate priority for missing tests or %check

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Todorov" <atodorov at redhat.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Alexander Kurtakov" <akurtakov at redhat.com>, "Discussion of RPM packaging standards and practices for Fedora"
> <packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 3:56:43 PM
> Subject: Re: How to calculate priority for missing tests or %check
> 
> На 27.02.2014 21:31, Aleksandar Kurtakov написа:
> > I have similar feelings as ajax. It's not whether it's useless of treasure.
> > If someone says "give me commit rights as I want to make tests build|fix
> > url|fix formatting|improve BRs|etc. in package A you're maintainer" I
> > would be more than happy to welcome him/her as co-maintainer but just
> > showing me such things as something to be improved is not something that I
> > would hurry to even look at as I'm aware of way more problems that affect
> > even runtime behaviour of the package and until these more important
> > things get fixed the rest is smth that the one identifing should come with
> > a fix otherwise it will stay for the bright future when we have endless
> > time and resources.
> >
> 
> So you mean somewhere around Fedora 100 when we enter the Singularity :).

Or even 1000 :). Whenever people start fixing the problems is the right answer.

"Talk is cheap, show me the code."
The time spent on these discussions could have ended in 10+ fixed packages if summed.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> 
> 
>  >>>> On 27.02.2014 17:24, Adam Jackson wrote:
>  >>>>> On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 16:03 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>  >>>> ...
>  >>>>>> Btw the URL field in the spec file should be updated to
>  >>>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>> Oh yes, another useless rpm feature, I'll be sure to make that my top
>  >>>>> priority.
>  >>>>
> 
> 
> Indeed I run a small test and from 2574 RPMs on the source DVD there is
> around
> 40% of "something different than HTTP 200 OK".
> 
> The majority (30%) are responses in the 3XX range and only less than 10% are
> actual errors (4XX, 5XX, missing URLs or connection errors).
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what purpose does the URL field serve nowadays but it looks like
> it
> can be removed from the spec file (and RPM for that matter)!
> 
> 
> --
> Alex
> 
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