/me really thinks the subject is bad and confusing; some people seem to talk about "Pushing updates for existing packages through update-testing" (as the subject could indicate) other about "Pushing new packages through updates-testing first"; hopefully most differentiate... On 01.06.2007 18:00, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 15:10 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 01.06.2007 14:43, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:24 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>> 1) Can it cause regressions for existing users? -> No >>> It can cause new problems. >> +1 >>>> 2) Will it get installed automatically by the relative few people who have >>>> updates -testing enabled, and thus see any kind of testing (atleast if its >>>> installable)? -> No >>> You're making an assumption that there are few people that enable >>> updates-testing. >> /me has it enabled on nearly all of his machines and that way prevented >> at least once or twice in the past that bad updates hit updates-proper > How often do you install new packages from updates-testing? Until now there were nearly never new packages in update-testing as only Core had updates-testing -- but Core rarely had new packages so the repo was only used for updates normally. So the answer until now is: Never, or only, if the new package was tracked in by a dep. > I use updates-testing just like a lot of other people, but I've never > installed new packages from it, I don't even know how to see which new > packages are available there without listing the directory. See above. But I assume soon you'll see update-testing announcements on fedora-test-list just as we did in the past for update. If it's something I might be interested in I'd in the future say "hey, that apps sounds cool; I give it a quick try just to know if it really is". There are small chances I find a bug while at it. If it's not a bad bug: yeah, push the package over to updates-proper and deal with it later. > [...] Cu thl -- 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
