On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 08:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Back to the swig update. There is no QA process, at least not for the > majority of packages. Here's the update ticket for swig: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-8145 > > As you can see, it got pushed directly to "stable", which didn't give > anybody a chance to test it before it landed in the repos. Only if it had > been pushed to testing, there would have been a window during which the > community could have tested it and could have used the "karma points" > voting system in bodhi, the Fedora Updates System. > > And even if it didn't have broken deps, it could still suffer from further > breakage, which could only be found out with actual testing (done by > humans as well as automated tests). We are working on the critical path packages proposal (which will prevent critical packages from being sent straight to updates in this manner, though I don't think swig is on that list), and autoqa checks which will prevent packages which break dependencies like this being pushed as updates. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
