On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:00:59PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:45 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > here will > > ALWAYS be a need for a way to fasttrack regression fixes! > > The proposals I've seen include a way to fasttrack. That is you get the > required karma between the time the update was submitted to bodhi, and > the time a bodhi admin starts the push. In such cases your update would > go directly to stable. How is that not a fast track? The Bodhi "karma" system is a very inflexible tool. Firstly, getting 3 up votes is (probably) easy if you have loads of users like the kernel, and really hard for the rest of us with packages which have only a small number of users. When I have conscientiously tested the package myself on several machines, my vote doesn't count at all. Secondly, a simple linear scale doesn't reflect the complexity of testing packages. I've had people downvote my packages because of FAQ issues or user error or long-standing bugs in some other package that we can't or don't want to fix; and people downvote packages because of serious issues that really deserve a BZ as well or instead. There are also technical problems: You can't fit much text in the Bodhi text box, and it can't be formatted except as a single paragraph, and when you do add a comment to help someone it doesn't seem to be seen by the original downvoter. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
