On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 09:02 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >> Can we please either disable these nag messages or give developers the >> ability to push a package regardless of testing when it reaches nag age? > > You have that ability for non-critpath updates, but for critpath the > thought is that updates really need to get tested before they go out. > > I've said a few times that I think this could be adjusted for old > releases, on practical grounds. It makes no sense in theory - if > anything, the testing requirements for old releases should be *tighter*, > as there's a greater expectation of stability - but in practice, we just > don't have the test coverage for old releases. Either not many people > run them, or those who do just aren't interested in running > updates-testing and providing feedback. One thing I noticed was with the updates reports is that the old updates disappear off the report so in some cases people aren't even aware they might need testing. It would be good to have an old_testing section so people are actually aware that they need testing. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
