Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org writes: [...] Probably the saddest thing about this giant flamewar you've started is [...] For what it's worth, I have seen no lack of courtesy from Kevin Kofler in this thread, so the accusation of flamewarism would be more appropriately directed to

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/27/2010 10:38 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: in today. Next time a user tells you I want a newer X tell them Upgrade to rawhide. -Mike In my opinion rawhide is NOT a rolling release at all. Please stop telling people to use rawhide as a rolling release. it isnt. -- devel mailing

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:44:11AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: Chris Adams wrote: IMHO you're developing the wrong distro. It is statements like yours

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Mail Lists wrote: On 02/27/2010 10:38 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: in today. Next time a user tells you I want a newer X tell them Upgrade to rawhide. -Mike In my opinion rawhide is NOT a rolling release at all. Please stop telling people to use rawhide as a

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 13:26 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Oh, and by the way: Orion Poplawski wrote: There is plenty of room for something in between your vision of Fedora and CentOS. There is plenty of room for something in between your vision of Fedora and Rawhide. :-) To quote

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: If they Obsolete something else, then they're not really new packages. I that's the blanket generalization I read it as, I don't agree with it, but meh. Well, true, new packages which Provide some common virtual Provides like

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/27/2010 04:30 PM, Mail Lists wrote: an I do want updates. Kernel updates, for example, are very important - they carry many improvements - not just drivers but functionality as well. The ones that are less obvious are the bugs that happen rarely but that can be nasty (an occasional

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:30:52 -0500, Mail Lists li...@sapience.com wrote: [speaking of which where on earth is 2.6.32.9 ] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=158902 And if you want the latest 2.6.33 build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=158529

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/27/2010 12:33 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:30:52 -0500, Mail Lists li...@sapience.com wrote: [speaking of which where on earth is 2.6.32.9 ] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=158902 And if you want the latest 2.6.33 build:

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/27/2010 12:33 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:30:52 -0500, Mail Lists li...@sapience.com wrote: [speaking of which where on earth is 2.6.32.9 ] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=158902 Thank you .. but I really meant where are as far

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/27/2010 01:23 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Why wouldn't you want try the koji version if you were willing to try an updates-testing version? If it doesn't work for you, you boot the previous kernel, pretty much the same as when there is a bad test version. Me ? I am running koji

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:45:36 -0500, Bill wrote: To phrase a strawman differently: No update is pushed to users without verification and testing from entities other than the packager. No, thanks. The popular/high profile packages will get their usual rushed +1 votes in

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:45:49AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: Did you read what he wrote? I feel tempted to just copy the paragraph Kevin wrote again, because it already answers your question: Rawhide is not partly rolling as Fedora is. And a typical

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: I like it more to have bugs fixed in F(current) at the cost of not fixing that much bugs in F(current-1) to keep it stable. This should read as to have more bugs fixed in F(current) (even at the cost of maybe introduce regressions).

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:45:49AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: Did you read what he wrote? I feel tempted to just copy the paragraph Kevin wrote again, because it already answers your question: Rawhide is not

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:45:49AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: Did you read what he wrote? I feel tempted to just copy the paragraph Kevin wrote again, because it already answers your question: Rawhide is not

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote: Afaik the KDE updates work very well and I know a fanatic KDE user who cannot expect to wait for the next KDE update, because he knows of bugs that are fixed in it. Usually he does not even need to

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:05:54PM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: About rawhide: rawhide could/should contain more experimental stuff, such as beta releases or cvs snapshots of actively and frequently developed software. Such a repo would be nice, but it won't work for Rawhide as it is, because

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:05:54 -0500, Orcan wrote: About rawhide: rawhide could/should contain more experimental stuff, such as beta releases or cvs snapshots of actively and frequently developed software. Why? And what would be the

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Saturday, 27 February 2010 at 16:44, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: Chris Adams wrote: IMHO you're developing the wrong distro. It is statements like yours that contribute to the Fedora is a rolling beta

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Frields
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: this is a *terrible* idea. We may see users as a 'resource', but they don't see themselves this way. We should not interrupt their usage of

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Christof Damian
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:16, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Some situations where I and others have used direct stable pushes in the past and where I think they're really warranted and should be used: * A new package which doesn't replace anything, and which I verified to work

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Christof Damian chris...@damian.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:16, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Some situations where I and others have used direct stable pushes in the past and where I think they're really warranted and should be used: * A

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:16:43 +0100, Kevin wrote: Hi, at the FESCo meeting on Tuesday, everyone except me seemed to be set on wanting to disable the possibility to queue updates directly to stable in Bodhi. That would be a ridiculous decision. It would be much better to disable that

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/26/2010 01:16 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Hi, at the FESCo meeting on Tuesday, everyone except me seemed to be set on wanting to disable the possibility to queue updates directly to stable in Bodhi. The only reason this was not decided right there (with no outside feedback) is that Matthew

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
On Fr, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: [...] We really need more transparency in decision making! [...] If you can think of more, please post them! But even if you just agree with me, please reply so the other FESCo members don't think it's just me! +1 -- devel mailing list

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I think banning stable pushes is the right idea. None of your reasons is very convincing. * A regression which causes big breakage at least for some people slipped through testing for whatever reason. We urgently want the fix to get out

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I would like to collect feedback on this issue. If you want to disable direct stable pushes, why? Could there be a less radical solution to that problem (e.g. a policy discouraging direct stable pushes for some specific types of

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Marcela Maslanova wrote: - Matthias Clasen wrote: I think banning stable pushes is the right idea. None of your reasons is very convincing. +1 Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Marcela Maslanova
- Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:14:13AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: - Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I think banning stable pushes is the right idea. None of your reasons

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Hi, at the FESCo meeting on Tuesday, everyone except me seemed to be set on wanting to disable the possibility to queue updates directly to stable in Bodhi. The only reason this was not decided right there (with no outside feedback)

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:20:10AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:14:13AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: My packages are rarely tested and I forget them in testing phase for a long time. Also fixing BR don't need testing. I simply need push immediately the new/fixed

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Unconvincing, though. History has shown that some packagers still managed to push new packages that suffered from broken deps [..] Well than the review process failed ... -- devel mailing list

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christof Damian wrote: Will there be a minimum number of days a package has to stay in testing? I have no idea. I'm against any minimum number of days, but I'm against the whole proposal anyway. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:36:41AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:16:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I would like to collect feedback on this issue. If you want to disable direct stable pushes, why? Could

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: That would be a ridiculous decision. It would be much better to disable that feature only for those update submitters who really have been dilettantish enough to use it inappropriately more than once. Yeah, that's a good idea. We really need to avoid punishing everyone

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Friday 26 February 2010 14:32:16 Marcela Maslanova wrote: - Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:14:13AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: - Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I think

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: at the FESCo meeting on Tuesday, everyone except me seemed to be set on Do you really see _everything_ as FESCo (or the world) vs. Kevin Kofler? I read over the FESCo logs from time to time, and your repeated foot-stomping on the DSO

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ralf Corsepius wrote: * Many (most) packages get pushed without testing. I consider people who believe package to see tested in testing, to be in error. To me, testing isn't much more but a delay queue. Good point. * Some maintainers ignore feedback on packages in testing. Indeed, and the

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Mike McGrath
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:14:13AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: - Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I think banning stable pushes is the right idea. None of your reasons is

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:26:59 -0500, Orcan wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown reason. Any update with less than a specified number of characters (~40) in the Notes should also be banned.

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:26:59 -0500, Orcan wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown reason. Any update with less than a specified number of

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: EPEL has run this way for a while, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. EPEL is very different. Packages in EPEL have been tested in fedora and so will very rarely need hotfixes aor regression fixes (except for security fixes, which

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:07:05 +0100, Patrice wrote: I may be remebering wrong, but an argument for bodhi against those who wanted a simpler push mechanism (like wwhat was in the fedora extra days) and argued that bodhi will add more unecessary delays was that there always was the possibility

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Patrice Dumas pertu...@free.fr said: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: EPEL has run this way for a while, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. EPEL is very different. Packages in EPEL have been tested in fedora and so will very rarely need

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at writes: Some situations where I and others have used direct stable pushes in the past and where I think they're really warranted and should be used: You forgot security fixes. The proposed policy is insane. regards, tom lane --

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:49:18 +0100, Till wrote: Imho it is more a perversion of how it is meant to be. This package was tested before it went to updates-testing and therefore went straight to stable. But the majority of packages goes to updates-testing and is not tested by someone else but

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: But presumably we still want to test the fix, to avoid introducing yet another regression ?! [snip] Just go up to your first argument: the breage slips through. That is exactly what happens if your judgement of 'low risk' turns out to be wrong. And it will... [snip]

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:42:29 +0100, drago01 wrote: History has shown that some packagers still managed to push new packages that suffered from broken deps [..] Well than the review process failed ... Sometimes, not always. Don't forget that reviewers don't review builds for all dists,

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:41:34AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at writes: Some situations where I and others have used direct stable pushes in the past and where I think they're really warranted and should be used: You forgot security fixes. The proposed policy is

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown reason. Any update with less than a specified number of characters (~40) in the Notes should also be banned. That's a completely unrelated

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: The possibility to publish hot-fixes is most important. +1. Not being able to push those out quickly would really suck. What sucks more is recent hot-fixes which were even more broken than the issue they were trying to fix. They were

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Josh Boyer wrote: Nobody said disallow direct-to-stable pushes completely, entirely, with no exceptions. That would indeed be absurd. But the proposed exception procedures which were floated were so burdensome and slow that they made the entire exception procedure effectively useless. For

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Till Maas wrote: Imho it takes too long to get packages into updates-testing, if people are really interested in testing packages, they often seem to get packages directly from Koji, e.g. on this update I got 3 positive Karma points (one of them was anonymous) within 76 minutes after

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:35:58PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:07:05 +0100, Patrice wrote: I may be remebering wrong, but an argument for bodhi against those who wanted a simpler push mechanism (like wwhat was in the fedora extra days) and argued that bodhi will

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Unconvincing, though. History has shown that some packagers still managed to push new packages that suffered from broken deps [..] Well than the review process failed ... Indeed.

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:39:19AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Patrice Dumas pertu...@free.fr said: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:04:55AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: EPEL has run this way for a while, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. EPEL is very different. Packages in

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Patrice Dumas wrote: I may be remebering wrong, but an argument for bodhi against those who wanted a simpler push mechanism (like wwhat was in the fedora extra days) and argued that bodhi will add more unecessary delays was that there always was the possibility to push to stable for packagers.

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I can't see a reason to make exceptions. What about the many valid reasons that have been brought up? E.g. if a package is destroying people's hardware, wouldn't you want the fix to go out BEFORE your hardware is dead? I'd want it

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Chris Adams wrote: EPEL has run this way for a while, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. EPEL does not have a 6 month release cycle :) Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Good point. Indeed, packages are often tested sufficiently before they even enter updates-testing. Even if pushes become more frequent, it can still happen if testing is called for on a fast medium like IRC and the fix touches many

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Maybe some package rating included in PackageKit would be nice - for stable packages it's indicator that this package is worth to install, for testing package it would mean it's working (but again - who's going to rate it in pkgkit once installed). That won't solve the

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:28 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Chris Adams wrote: EPEL has run this way for a while, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. EPEL does not have a 6 month release cycle :) The 6 month release cycle means you need to hurry to get your stuff into

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:16 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: at the FESCo meeting on Tuesday, everyone except me seemed to be set on wanting to disable the possibility to queue updates directly to stable in Bodhi. The only reason this was not decided right there (with no outside feedback) is

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: The possibility to publish hot-fixes is most important. +1. Not being able to push those out quickly would really suck. What sucks more is recent hot-fixes which were even more broken than the issue they were

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: Doesn't sound right. FE could push to stable always and much more quickly, too. What was missing was a convenient interface for packagers which they could use to decide between testing and stable or whether not to push a build at all. It was necessary to submit special

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Adams wrote: Every time a package is built, it is susceptible to new bugs. Packaging bugs, build requirement changes, and software bugs all creep in, and not trying to ram things out the door as fast as possible seems like a good idea. But EPEL has a completely different target

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:23 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: Because EPEL has to be very stable, so additional time spent in testing is even better, for example for reasons you highlight below. I never said that packages should not go through testing in EPEL! But Fedora is another thing. The

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:59:59 -0800, Jesse wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: The possibility to publish hot-fixes is most important. +1. Not being able to push those out quickly would really suck. What sucks more is recent hot-fixes which were even more

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tom Lane wrote: You forgot security fixes. They'd probably be excepted. But that leaves (among other things) the problem of regressions caused by security fixes (see the D-Bus and Thunderbird fiascos, and several less fatal ones), fixes for those need to go out ASAP. But I agree that banning

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:20 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:55 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: The possibility to publish hot-fixes is most important. +1. Not being able to push those out quickly would really suck. What sucks more is recent

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Josh Boyer wrote: There is no proposed policy yet. What you are replying to is Kevin's take on a discussion that was supposed to lead to a policy being drafted. Yet it would almost have been voted with no clear policy, it was just mjg59 pointing that out which stopped that. Kevin

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 14:49:18 +0100, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: Imho it is more a perversion of how it is meant to be. This package was tested before it went to updates-testing and therefore went straight to stable. But the majority of packages goes to updates-testing and is

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: Sometimes, not always. Don't forget that reviewers don't review builds for all dists, but packagers often publish mass-builds for multiple dists without prior testing. In practice that is not often a source of trouble. (Though new packages are somewhat more likely to

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: That was my suggestion. All I got was negative comments (AIUI, nobody else wanted anything less than a majority of FESCo to be able to approve direct stable pushes, at least nobody said otherwise in the meeting), and even

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:29:00 -0500, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:28 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Chris Adams wrote: EPEL has run this way for a while, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. EPEL does not have a 6 month

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:40 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Transparency means asking for feedback BEFORE writing the policy. The sooner you involve the community, the better. Putting out a policy as take it or leave it, or worse take it, you have to, we voted it through already is not

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:40:46 +0100 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Josh Boyer wrote: The time period is mere speculation on your part. It's not just mere speculation, the idea has been brought up by nirik, citing EPEL as precedent: [begin quote (from the meeting log)] Feb 23

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Most often what works on Fedora n also works on Fedora m. It's not like the reviewer tested on Slackware or OS X. ;-) Most often. Sure, that seems good enough to throw potential crap at users. Our os most often works. Don't worry

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:49 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: Could happen also with security updates. E.g. the recent gnome-screensaver security update visually corrupted the Fedora and GNOME screensavers. Rather harmless, but in other cases (e.g. kernel upgrades) a trade-off is made between

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2/26/2010 6:16, Kevin Kofler wrote: at the FESCo meeting on Tuesday, everyone except me seemed to be set on wanting to disable the possibility to queue updates directly to stable in Bodhi. The only reason this was not decided right there (with no outside feedback) is that Matthew Garrett

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:26:47 -0800, Jesse wrote: I think this conversation is derailed by the must go into updates-testing first aspect. This isn't the intention. The intention as I see it is that updates must be tested before they go to stable. Can you expand on must be tested? Some test

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:20:00AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: While people using Fedora may want the latest stuff, I doubt that most of them care about time scales less than a month (I assume I am an exception) unless there is a bug they care about. In which case they can use the bug

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown reason. Any update with less than a specified number of characters (~40) in the Notes

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2/26/2010 7:26, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown reason. Any update with less than a specified number of

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:39 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: Can you expand on must be tested? Some test updates just don't get any testing. Audacity 1.3.10-beta https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-13139 (2009-12-09 to 2010-01-26) Audacity 1.3.11-beta

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2/26/2010 10:55, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2/26/2010 7:26, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with no explanations. There is a Notes field in bodhi that many people just ignore for an unknown reason. Any update

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Patrice Dumas (pertu...@free.fr) said: I may be remebering wrong, but an argument for bodhi against those who wanted a simpler push mechanism (like wwhat was in the fedora extra days) and argued that bodhi will add more unecessary delays was that there always was the possibility to push to

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2/26/2010 11:07, Jesse Keating wrote: It'll require some enhancements to how bodhi is used for people consuming testing updates, and it may require a more active role on part of the maintainer to seek out somebody to at least give the update a smoke test. Instead of treating

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Mike McGrath
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2/26/2010 11:07, Jesse Keating wrote: It'll require some enhancements to how bodhi is used for people consuming testing updates, and it may require a more active role on part of the maintainer to seek out somebody to at least give the update

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:16 -0600, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2/26/2010 11:07, Jesse Keating wrote: It'll require some enhancements to how bodhi is used for people consuming testing updates, and it may require a more active role on part of the maintainer to seek out somebody to at least

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: [...] Though, in theory, fewer updates means a higher percentage of them can be tested which means quality goes up. Even if this might start another flamewar ... I like the idea of having less updates. The the version

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:14:41 -0500, Bill wrote: tested. Every fix carries a risk of regression. To phrase a strawman differently: No update is pushed to users without verification and testing from entities other than the packager. No, thanks. The popular/high profile packages will get

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:51 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: Fedora Legacy, aka the barrel burst. More mandatory stuff, not enough free resources = failure. Legacy took it way too far, with much fewer resources, and a complete lack of tools. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:07:24PM +, Jesse Keating wrote: direct relationship. Maybe something in the Fedora Engineering Services initiative could be to spend some time smoke testing updates-testing stuff. Something I am dreaming about is to have some infrastructure to automatically

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:46:27 -0500, Orcan wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2/26/2010 10:55, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2/26/2010 7:26, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Another annoying issue is updates with

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:56 +0100, Till Maas wrote: Something I am dreaming about is to have some infrastructure to automatically test packages, so mabye they could build that first and then write tests for packages. The AutoQA project is in full swing, developing just that, a framework to

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:07:24PM +, Jesse Keating wrote: It'll require some enhancements to how bodhi is used for people consuming testing updates, and it may require a more active role on part of the maintainer to seek out somebody to at least give the update a smoke test. For many

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Mike McGrath wrote: [...] Though, in theory, fewer updates means a higher percentage of them can be tested which means quality goes up. Even if this might start another flamewar ... I like the idea of having

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:42:16PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:07:24PM +, Jesse Keating wrote: It'll require some enhancements to how bodhi is used for people consuming testing updates, and it may require a more active role on part of the maintainer to seek

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