[Fwd: Re: Stable Release Updates policy]

[Reinhard Tartler]

Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> writes:
> Am Montag, den 30.10.2006, 23:52 -0500 schrieb Daniel T. Chen:
>> 
>> I recommend following main's/restricted's SRU more closely: Packages
>> should remain in release-proposed until 5 people have given affirmative
>> ACKs or 7 days have elapsed, whichever takes longer.

This sounds sane. This way, interested testers can fetch the package
From -proposed while we ensure that the proposed pacakge gets attention.


> I agree with what Daniel wrote and have a few points to add myself:
>
>       * We should make sure that testers know that it's not a matter of
>         "I started the app and it doesn't crash on start-up". For
>         example: I uploaded a gdm to dapper-updates a while ago which
>         worked nicely and fixed a bunch of smaller issues. However did
>         it break "automatic login" which made people of a school with
>         kiosk computers quite unhappy. You might have encountered
>         similar examples already. Fixes sometimes do have side-effects.
>         We should take testing seriously.

This means that we require independent testing reports, in form of
informal prosa describing how the user actually tested the package. The
consequence of this is that packages with a small user base are less
likely to get an SRU. 

I don't think this is much of a problem, hostely. For these packages,
-backports is another posibility to get a fixed package.

>       * Who do we notify of testing? Simon Law too? UWN? ubuntu-users?

We could ask Simon if he has (time) ressources left to handle the
universe SRUs. If he agrees, sure!

UWN is a good idea. Perhaps there could be a section named "SRUs under
investigation - please help with testing." 

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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