On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 05:05:41AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > Seriously? When I push out an update to testing, I already have done the > > tests on it in my system, and it *think* it is correct. What would be > > the point of pushing out something that is known to be broken? > > > > The time in testing is for others to others to do the same. The result > > is that the push to stable is based on acks from the maintainer's + n > > independent people. You seem to be saying that the maintainer's checks > > alone are better. > > The maintainer is of course supposed to look at the testers' feedback when > making the decision. But it is never a good idea to blindly trust an ill- > defined integer (the difference # positive comments - # negative comments, > which is only vaguely correlated to the quality of the update) going above > an arbitrary threshold. It makes a difference who the testers are and what > exactly they wrote! The software simply CANNOT make that call for you. The testers write "works for me" or report a new bug. When things work, there's nothing to evaluate. Doing the counting by hand is just a way to waste time. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
