Staging area for hardy-proposed ?

[Jordan Mantha]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Le jeudi 05 juin 2008 à 11:03 -0700, Jordan Mantha a écrit :
> > I seriously question the usefulness of -proposed for regression
> > testing.
>
> Hi,
>
> Taking a recent example, the evolution 2.22.1 to 2.22.1.1 stable updates
> had several regressions, in the days following the hardy-proposed update
> we got several bugs from people who updated to the new version, we
> worked with upstream on those issue, it took some evolution-data-server
> and evolution updates iterations until having the people confirming that
> those issues were fixed before we moved the new version to
> hardy-updates, using hardy-proposed has been really valuable and worked
> as expect in this case, and for several other updates since hardy


Well, perhaps I should have qualified my statement a bit :-) For high-use
packages I can imagine that we would get enough people to have a decent
amount of regression testing. For a great many packages (especially in
Universe) however, 1 week in -proposed just isn't going to be enough time to
get adequate usage for regression testing. My point wasn't so much that
-proposed is *bad*, just that I think we could maybe do *better* than to
just having people turn it on and see what happens.

-Jordan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/attachments/20080606/633d41e5/attachment.htm