On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:43 +0200, Johannes Lips wrote: > Hi, > > I think a major problem of the current update policy is, that regular > users don't see if there are new package updates in updates-testing, > unless they enable it and I doubt many regular users do this. > > So we might think about spreading the word, when a new update of a > software package is available in updates-testing. I don't know how we > could achieve this. Perhaps an idea which I had earlier might be to > start a page or service where you could "like" various packages and > you'll get notifications if there is something happening with that > package. Perhaps https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ could be a > starting point for this idea. > Perhaps we could collect other ideas on this but I think if we make the > update process more public we will get more testers for sure. Bodhi already automatically notifies any bugs that an update is marked as fixing when that update is pushed into -testing, complete with instructions on how to update to the -testing package, and we (QA) have https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join linking to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Updates_Testing and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester . -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
