-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/2010 09:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 05:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Michael Schwendt wrote: >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-geode-2.11.9-1.fc14 >> >> This update is the perfect example for how this new update policy is >> completely broken and just cannot work. > > Again, you're extrapolating way too far from a single problem case. The > problem is simply that we have the xorg-x11-drivers metapackage which > requires every single X driver and is in the critpath. There's various > ways we could adjust this so it's no longer the case. It's hardly > something that renders an entire policy invalid. > >> A bugfix is now being held up for almost a month just because there's no >> proventester with the required hardware. > > The proventesters are not an immutable set. There's certainly people who > have the hardware - anyone with an XO, and I see enough of them at > FUDCons. All we need is for one of them to sign up to be a proventester. > This isn't impossible either. Also in situations like these it should be possible for proven tester to give karma by proxy, seeking out somebody with the hardware to test it. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyiw3EACgkQ4v2HLvE71NXr1QCdFR37+igMB8WS9Tek+0FgnVNX +Y0An3WzkLIvDC6srAZABVw7bOpbJAHa =RUDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
