[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

Wed Jan 11 17:24:20 CET 2012

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> Well, 2) and 3) are not valid reasons here, because backports should get
+> a similar amount of QA testing as normal update candidates, and for
+> the updates policy require a bugreport for validation through QA.
+
+I think this is unrealistic in practice. For updates, QA will be
+testing one bug fix,  with a backport you will have dozens or more new
+features to test, you can't expect for QA to test all of them to be
+able to give the OK, more if they even don't use the backported app in
+a daily basis. Testing of a backport has to be more relaxed and
+compromise to test some basic stuff like that it installs and starts
+correctly, maybe the package maintainer can give some hints on what
+else to test, but the rest we will have to trust in the maintainer's
+judgement.
+
+If you think that all version backports should be tested in the same
+way as updates by QA, then all versions upgrades in cauldron should be
+tested by QA before pushing them to the BS right ? why risk for a bug
+on a program when updating to a new mga version and not when doing a
+backport ?, it's exactly the same situation.
+
+
+
+-- 
+Juancho
+