On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 12:45:14PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > With regard to new packages added to the collection, Fedora is focused on > quantity instead of quality. Is it? I'm a member of the Fedora community, and I think we should be inclusive about the packages we take, allowing anything which isn't illegal and which follows the guidelines. This may mean that packages duplicate functionality and so forth, so be it. > The fight against the review-queue leads to metrics (who does the > most reviews per week?) while nobody measures the quality of the > reviews and the quality of the released packages. This is entirely a problem of the Fedora process, that Debian (as an example) does not have. We could easily measure the quality of reviewed packages using mass rebuilds and automated tests, as Debian's QA team do routinely. > One can only hope that poor reviews of simple packages like bug > 494852 will be avoided in the future. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494852 That is indeed a poor review. I have no doubt that many other packages already in Fedora have problems or are inconsistent with the guidelines. Debian does much better here by **routine automated testing of the packages which are in the distribution**. Relying on the review as the single hurdle over which all packages must jump, and then having a complete free-for-all in the distribution -- that's simply bad process, and not a necessary factor for a Linux distribution. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
