On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:11:05PM -0400, Will Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:00 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:16:27AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > > See above. They go out as an update to Fedora 7 and thus get a nice > > > announcement and such. > > > > Will there be a way to short-circuit the announcement and just update, > > like it was possible before? > > Holy Zod, no. No no no. Very no. > > There will be no more silent updating of packages without explanation > or at least a *chance* for testing. The issue of testing and of announcement are very different issues. > Yeah, I know this makes putting out updates slightly harder, but in my > opinion the fact that we ever allowed this at all was a massive > oversight, not a design feature. I disagree. In my opinion the right way is to have the infrastructure that allows to do announcements, while keeping the possibility not to use it. > We will have to work slightly harder in order to Do The Right Thing for > our users, to ensure package sanity and overall distribution stability. > Those are our goals, and I hope you'll agree that they're worth working > for. Indeed, but it isn't the point. Sometimes doing the right thing is not losing time when there are better things to work on. -- Pat -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
