<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process </TITLE> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Finalizing%20update%20process&In-Reply-To=%3C1307570970.26948.41.camel%40akroma.ephaone.org%3E"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="005843.html"> <LINK REL="Next" HREF="005224.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <H1>[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process</H1> <B>Michael Scherer</B> <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Finalizing%20update%20process&In-Reply-To=%3C1307570970.26948.41.camel%40akroma.ephaone.org%3E" TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process">misc at zarb.org </A><BR> <I>Thu Jun 9 00:09:29 CEST 2011</I> <P><UL> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005843.html">[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005224.html">[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#5222">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#5222">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#5222">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#5222">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <HR> <!--beginarticle--> <PRE>Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 20:39 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit : ><i> On 8 June 2011 18:57, Christiaan Welvaart <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>> wrote: </I> ><i> > So who decides to reject an update and at what point? According to your </I>><i> > proposal, either QA people decide this or they waste time on updates that </I>><i> > later get rejected. </I>><i> > </I>><i> </I>><i> IMHO, rejection reasons: </I>><i> - The sec team doesn't think the update fixes a serious security </I>><i> vulnerability; so it's not updates but backports </I> I would say that there is no version upgrade, unless exception. ><i> - The QA team couldn't validate, i.e. using the test case in the bug </I>><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 ) ><i> >> - QA manage the checks, and so will requires help ( hence the security </I>><i> >> team or any packager can help, provided they know how to do QA ) </I>><i> > </I>><i> > So a packager wants to fix a bug in package that is not very visible, sends </I>><i> > it to QA, then has to test it anyway? I'm not sure what you're saying here. </I>><i> > </I>><i> </I>><i> Not the packager committing the fix, (if he doesn't think it's fixed </I>><i> he won't ask for an update to begin with). </I> Yup :) ><i> But the QA team, this team </I>><i> could/should have packagers in it. </I> Or someone could help by doing QA and saying "so far, I see no regression", or just saying "I see regression" before some more experienced QA member do the test. -- Michael Scherer </PRE> <!--endarticle--> <HR> <P><UL> <!--threads--> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005843.html">[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005224.html">[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#5222">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#5222">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#5222">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#5222">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <hr> <a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list</a><br> </body></html>