Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-12-07 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:19 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:25 -0500 > James Laska wrote: > > ...snip... > > > > * setup a remote test env that people could use to test things. > > > > I could use more details on this point. Is this talking about setting > > up QA systems

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-12-07 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:21 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:44:02 -0500 > James Laska wrote: > > ...snip... > > > So there is a lag time for mirrors to receive updates. Does anyone > > know what that average time for mirrors to update is? > > It varies. > > I've been doing

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:44:02 -0500 James Laska wrote: ...snip... > So there is a lag time for mirrors to receive updates. Does anyone > know what that average time for mirrors to update is? It varies. I've been doing pushes every day for a while now, I start them in the morning and they usua

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:25 -0500 James Laska wrote: ...snip... > > * setup a remote test env that people could use to test things. > > I could use more details on this point. Is this talking about setting > up QA systems hosted in Fedora infrastructure that any tester could > login and use t

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
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: > > > > > > * Hav

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread James Laska
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 07:48 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:31:31 +0100, > Matthias Runge wrote: > > > > > >>> * allow packages with a %check section to go direct to stable. > > >> > > I think this is a bad idea. Just insert a null- %check section (package > > gets a

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:31:31 +0100, Matthias Runge wrote: > > > >>> * allow packages with a %check section to go direct to stable. > >> > I think this is a bad idea. Just insert a null- %check section (package > gets a +1 from provenpackager, add a (pseudo-anonymous) +1 vote and > voila: pa

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:24:32 +0100, Matthias wrote: > The bug reporter will probably verify the fixture for his bug. But, > given the fact, this new version breaks other things, this could be > possibly covered by a test case (in best case). A _new version_ will need to stay in updates-testing to

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Runge
On 30/11/10 10:51, 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 a

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
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 > > * Testin

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Runge
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 de

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-30 Thread Kamil Paral
- "Kevin Fenzi" wrote: > * have a way to get interested testers notified on bodhi updates for > packages > they care about. I think that's this one: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-29 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:40 -0500, James Laska wrote: > > > > * Just drop all the requirements/go back to before we had any updates > > > criteria. > > > > Hmm, certainly an idea. I feel like this is definitely a step backward, > > n

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-29 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 19:04 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:25 -0500, James wrote: > > > > * updates that only modify the spec could have a lower requirement. > > > (ie, to fix a packaging issue, no changes in the upstream software). > > > > All %obsoletes, %requires,

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:40 -0500, James Laska wrote: > > * Just drop all the requirements/go back to before we had any updates > > criteria. > > Hmm, certainly an idea. I feel like this is definitely a step backward, > not forward. Has the initial motivation for an updates policy gone away

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:25 -0500, James wrote: > > * updates that only modify the spec could have a lower requirement. > > (ie, to fix a packaging issue, no changes in the upstream software). > > All %obsoletes, %requires, %provides, %files and %patch statements are > only recorded in the .sp

Re: updates improvements/changes ideas

2010-11-29 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 09:56 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > On the devel list recently there was a long thread discussing how we > could improve the current https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy > > I gathered up ALL the ideas people put forth that were concrete in a > list fo