On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 10:51 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:31:31 +0100, Matthias wrote: > > > On 29/11/10 19:08, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:40 -0500, James Laska wrote: > > > > > Things that some people see as problematic are: > > > > > > * Having to wait a week to push an update if you can't find testing > > > * Testing being required for packages with automated test suites > > > * The delay to security updates which is introduced by the testing > > > requirements > > > > Testing would get much easier, if packagers could provide some test > > cases. The packager could send mail to -devel or -testing to get some > > testers. > > Sounds backwards to me. Given the life cycle of a bug, there is activity > in bugzilla prior to the maintainer developing a fix. Plus, bodhi adds > update notifications to bugzilla. If I were to expect someone to test the > fix, it would be the bug reporter to be the additional tester. Proven tester testing is not really about testing the bug fix contained within an update; it's more about making sure the update doesn't cause regressions, especially regressions that would negatively affect the rest of the system. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
