On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:14:41PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > Bringinig down productivity of good packagers for a few bad ones, is, > > in my opinion, not a good move. > > Fedora doesn't exist for the productivity of packagers. It exists for > the productivity of our users. Both are related (except of course for people paid to work on fedora). > To put it a different way, a large regression for our users far outweighs > tha cost of any number (heck, even hundreds) of bugfixes having to wait > a day, or two, or even a week. I fully agree with that. But pushing to stable rapidly may help correct rapidly regerssions, too. > "No update is pushed to users without verification and testing from entities > other than the packager." That works for known packages with a lot of users, but for specialized packages, it just doesn't make sense. Leaving it to the packager in that case is better. Maybe something that would work would be to flag especially packages that are important, especially when other packages depend on them, and have sufficient users/co-maintainers such that having verification isn't a waste of time. Something like 'core' packages, but with a definition based on their coreness, not their maintainer. For example the definition could be everything in Core + Base + Basic X + base gnome and KDE + ... + their dependencies. -- Pat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
