On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I don't by any means disagree with the idea that testing packages before > they go out is a good thing. What I have a problem with is the idea > that an "unfunded mandate" for that to happen is going to accomplish > much. A policy isn't worth the electrons it's written on unless you can > bring resources to make it happen, and so far the resources have failed > to materialize. Jawboning package maintainers is going to be an even > more spectacular failure, because they have much more than enough to do > already; and they're smart enough to know that turning them all into > individual ad-hoc test managers is an incredibly inefficient use of > their time. Please remember the exact policy we have. There is still no absolute requirement for testing for anything but critpath packages, which is a fairly small number. All other packages can push updates without testing; there's simply a short waiting period to do so. While we're arguing theoreticals, don't forget the factuals. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
