On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 12:28 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > Julian Leyh <julian <at> vgai.de> writes: > > > > > 2012/8/20 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones <at> redhat.com>: > > > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.2-0.3.20120806git3e430569.fc18 > > > > > > I built the package, and I tested it. Yet doing the right thing means > > > my karma doesn't count ... > > > > > > IMO this change makes the karma system (even) worse than before. > > > > > > Rich. > > > > If you submit it, it means you already tested and approved it. Karma > > from you gives no new (quality) information about the package. It > > should be tested by independent people. > > That's not necessarily true. The packager might build for F16, F17, and F18, > say, but not actually have all those systems to test on (even in a VM). So karma > would in fact give additional information. IMO packagers should be treated the > same as anyone else regarding karma. If they abuse the privilege, it can be > taken away individually, the same as any other tester. Furthermore, a not-inconsequential consideration is proxy-karma. For example, I have in the past occasionally given karma +1 (and -1) on my own packages from users that did not have Fedora accounts (or couldn't manage to defeat the ogre that is FAS's CAPTCHA). Not being able to add this karma on their behalf further reduces the available pool of testers (or at least forces me to go find someone else with a Fedora account and ask them to proxy it for me, thus resulting in three layers of indirection).
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