On 10/15/2009 03:23 PM, Benny Amorsen wrote: > Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> And that's a people problem more than a process problem. If nobody >> tests it in updates-testing, then how is the maintainer to know that it >> is problematic? Certainly not solvable with even more repos for testing >> content... > > I ran updates-testing for a while, but it didn't result in me writing > any bug reports. I wasn't particularly aware of whether a package came > from updates-testing, so that it was worth spending a little bit of > energy testing that particular package. > > Would it be possible to make a little application which pops up on login > or every day (whichever comes first) saying "These applications are new > in updates-testing, would you like to help testing one?". Then you could > pick one and give it a try, and perhaps a few days later there would be > a pop up asking how it went? > > Strictly opt-in, of course. It has been suggested before. At one point, Richard Hughes pitched it in the packagekit list and they didn't like it and so he wanted to write a separate app but nothing has come out of it so far. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
