On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > How often has this happened? In the real scheme of things, what percentage of > packages have caused problems like this? I'm not denying the problems that > some people have had, but is there, perhaps, some over-reaction? How often has what happened? An accidental push to stable meant for testing? I don't think we could get an accurate count on that. We could get an accurate count on the number of times a request directly into stable has been made.. as an upper bound on our potential exposure to this problem...but we couldn't infer intent very easily. We could probably break it out and get security and non-security pushes. I myself pushed a non-security update directly to stable this week, to fix a dep problem caused by someone else pushing an updated library to stable without going through updates-testing. Was I wrong in doing that? I short-circuited my normal QA practises to make sure users could get that library update installed which preceeded my package update. Once we allow any package to go directly to stable, it can a cascade effect for any packages which depend on it. Also keep in mind that every legitimate security update which does not go to updates-testing presents a similar breakage risk because it short-circuiting a QA process for the sake of rushing the security fix to users. -jef -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
