[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process

Thu Jun 9 03:15:42 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 09 juin 2011 à 02:40 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+
+> Yes, but I was talking about the actual submitting to */release, not
+> fixing the package itself. IIUC the submission rights will be
+> restricted to the Sec team.
+
+Sorry to be picky, but there is no submit to */release, it is frozen.
+And in my proposition, there is also no submit to */update, there is a
+move from */updates_testing.
+
+So for managing the submit to updates_testing and the whole process, I
+think it should be open to any packagers. It should be maintainers
+responsibility to do the update ( prepare, do a test build, check,
+submit ), even if secteam members could be proactive for that. But the
+process should not be restricted to them, or it will not scale ( and
+given we want to have bugfixes updates, it wouldn't make much sense to
+call the team like this ).
+
+Since ensuring that a update is a minimal change is (to me) a quality
+issue, I propose to add to the QA list of things to check before
+refusing a update :
+"it doesn't fullfill the requirement of minimal changes ( with
+exceptions" 
+
+But that requires QA people to have minimal packaging notions, which
+could be a problem :/ 
+
+Again, nothing prevent people from the secteam to also be part of the QA
+team. 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+