[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process

Wed Jun 8 18:48:49 CEST 2011

On 8 June 2011 18:44, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 10:40 +0200, Anne nicolas a écrit :
+>> Hi there
+>>
+>> We have some stuff to complete here:
+>> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=security
+>>
+>> <http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=security>Can we spend the 2 or 3 coming
+>> days to finalize it and start updates submits?
+>
+> Pascal is working on this.
+>
+> So here is a proposal :
+> - anybody can submit a package to updates_testing.
+> - once submitted to testing, it should ask to QA to test, along with :
+>  - a reason for the update ( likely bug number )
+>  - potentially a priority ( ie, if this is just a translation update or
+> a urgent 0 day exploit )
+>  - a way to test the bug and see it is fixed
+>  - text for the update
+>
+> - qa validate the update ( with process to define )
+>
+> - someone move the package from updates_testing to testing
+
+Isn't it cleaner to rebuild when submitting to */updates? instead of moving.
+
+> - the bug is closed
+> - a announce is sent ( on various medias to be defined ), with the text
+> of update
+>
+>
+> So the points are :
+> - no update can be uploaded without QA validation
+> - QA manage the checks, and so will requires help ( hence the security
+> team or any packager can help, provided they know how to do QA )
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
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+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
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