Working update sitting in testing

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:59:23 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 08:08:05AM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The person that submitted the build to bohdi should be able to request a
> > > > push to stable after this much time. Then it will move to stable shortly
> > > > (around a day).
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the clarification.  I posted a comment on the corresponding
> > > bug report half a week back, but I doubt anyone is paying attention.
> > > The report was closed as WONTFIX automatically when F18 EOLed.
> > 
> > This is what I find frustrating about the whole thing. Most maintainers
> > put in a WONTFIX only after it becomes clear that there is no reason to
> > do so (either the software is going out of business in Fedora or the
> > software will not be maintained, etc). However, there are some who take
> > inexplicable decisions. Case in point: look at the bug
> 
> Please do not misunderstand my post.  The WONTFIX was an automatic
> change because F18 EOLed. 

Because the ticket was still open during that process. It could have been
closed by the maintainer. The updates in bodhi for F20 and F19 could have
been marked as stable by the maintainer, too (maintainers get a
notification by bodhi, btw). There are not enough testers for all these
updates.