On 03/01/2010 11:57 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 03/01/2010 11:52 AM, Peter Jones wrote: >> If you think this isn't the right way >> to provide a safety net for package maintainers - what is? > > With the understanding that you're not specifically asking me that > question, I'd say that I'd prefer to first try to automate checks for > the most frequent update issues: > > * Causes broken deps > * Breaks clean upgrade path between releases > * Has ABI/API change (and is a Critical Path package) > * Fails to pass any package specific sanity tests (as written by either > the maintainer, QA, rel-eng, or qualified contributors) > > AutoQA has the potential to do this. I'd rather see energy and effort > spent on taking out these low hanging fruit. If, after that, we're still > having broken updates pushed directly to stable, then I'd be willing to > consider a policy with an enforced delay in "testing". I *absolutely* agree that we need something like autoqa to let maintainers know when they've made an error with the (relatively) simple things it can detect. I'd also like a policy in place to help us avoid situations like the recent dnssec unpleasantness. -- Peter RFC 882 put the dots in .com. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel