On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:15:43PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > 1) to fix a bug or add a feature the maintainer experienced/uses If nobody is complaining about the bug, then fixing the bug can wait until the next Fedora release. > 2) As already told several times, not having people to test something > does not mean that the package is not used If they're not complaining, they're presumably happy with the current state of the package? > 3) It allows new users of the package not to find/debug the bugs again that > are already fixed upstream If they're willing to debug, why are they not willing to test? > 4) It is not made easy to test packages, e.g. normal uses normally do > not have a test environment set up and most likely do not want to mess > their own system. Maybe providing one-click access (e.g. via VNC) to a > test system with the package to be tested would help here. I agree that making it easier to test packages would be beneficial in a wide range of cases. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
