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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process</H1>
    <B>Michael Scherer</B> 
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    <I>Thu Jun  9 00:09:29 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 &#224; 20:39 +0300, Ahmad Samir a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> On 8 June 2011 18:57, Christiaan Welvaart &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>
&gt;<i> &gt; So who decides to reject an update and at what point? According to your
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; proposal, either QA people decide this or they waste time on updates that
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; later get rejected.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> IMHO, rejection reasons:
</I>&gt;<i> - The sec team doesn't think the update fixes a serious security
</I>&gt;<i> vulnerability; so it's not updates but backports
</I>
I would say that there is no version upgrade, unless exception. 


&gt;<i> - The QA team couldn't validate, i.e. using the test case in the bug
</I>&gt;<i> report, their test results didn't show that the bug is fixed
</I>
Yup.

Or someone detected a regression.
( like 'I installed foo-1.0-1 but it opened a dimensional vortex to
hell', as it happened on the QA testing facility of Phobos in Doom )

&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; - QA manage the checks, and so will requires help ( hence the security
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; team or any packager can help, provided they know how to do QA )
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; So a packager wants to fix a bug in package that is not very visible, sends
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; it to QA, then has to test it anyway? I'm not sure what you're saying here.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Not the packager committing the fix, (if he doesn't think it's fixed
</I>&gt;<i> he won't ask for an update to begin with). 
</I>
Yup :)

&gt;<i> But the QA team, this team
</I>&gt;<i> could/should have packagers in it.
</I>
Or someone could help by doing QA and saying &quot;so far, I see no
regression&quot;, or just saying &quot;I see regression&quot; before some more
experienced QA member do the test. 


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Michael Scherer

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