On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:15:35 +0100, drago01 wrote: > >> So it happened .. how do we prevent it in the future? How did it pass >> testing? > > A first +1 vote 22 hours _before_ it entered the updates-testing repo. > A second +1 vote eight hours _before_ it entered the updates-testing repo. > A third +1 vote and automatic push to stable two hours after it had entered > updates-testing: > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-0806/selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20 > > It has not been offered long enough for more testers to give it a try. > For example, here it had not been picked up by the nearby mirror yet when > the karma threshold was reached. By the time it had arrived and the first > scriptlet errors were noticed and required a closer look to find the culprit, > the update had been pushed to stable already.
OK. > How to prevent it from happening in the future? The update criteria for > the so-called critical path packages could be made more strict. A minimum > time for updates to stay in the updates-testing repo. A higher karma > threshold probably won't be sufficient, if testers aim at speed instead > of safety. Yeah that makes sense. (Automated tests that do test basic stuff would help as well). -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
