Re: Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Alex Hudson wrote: > I view this as entirely equivalent to having a rule about not breaking > trunk in version control: I don't know anyone who seriously argues that > breaking a project compile is a good thing. Breaking the OS should be > culturally identical - t

Re: Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Hudson
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > If something fails to COMPILE, this actually hinders development. In fact, > I'm one of the first ones to yell if package builds in Rawhide are broken > (due to some dependency breakage or whatever). Something failing to RUN is a > wholely

Re: Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alex Hudson wrote: > I view this as entirely equivalent to having a rule about not breaking > trunk in version control: I don't know anyone who seriously argues that > breaking a project compile is a good thing. Breaking the OS should be > culturally identical - that it's a "development branch" or

Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Hudson
(I'm really glad this topic has come up - I think it's critically important) On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 00:19 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > > Maybe there needs to be a classification for rawhide similar to the > > karma system for updates-testing, but limited to just a set o