Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 11.4.2011 17:33, Adam Williamson napsal(a): O rly? Are you *sure*? Well, as much as I could be sure that reading of XML file with libxml is risc-free process (yes, I think it is). OTOH, your decision is not cost-free either ... users of F13 have over the year old

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Flink
On 04/10/2011 07:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:19:26 -0700, Christopher Aillon cail...@redhat.com wrote: I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are based on stable, not testing. I think that's something we need to address. It's probably

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Christopher Aillon
On 04/10/2011 06:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:19:26 -0700, Christopher Ailloncail...@redhat.com wrote: I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are based on stable, not testing. I think that's something we need to address. It's probably

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Christopher Aillon
On 04/11/2011 12:13 AM, Tim Flink wrote: On 04/10/2011 07:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:19:26 -0700, Christopher Ailloncail...@redhat.com wrote: I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are based on stable, not testing. I think that's

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Flink
On 04/09/2011 05:31 AM, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with them. They might not

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Flink
On 04/11/2011 01:21 AM, Christopher Aillon wrote: On 04/11/2011 12:13 AM, Tim Flink wrote: On 04/10/2011 07:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:19:26 -0700, Christopher Ailloncail...@redhat.com wrote: I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 10.4.2011 23:07, Adam Williamson napsal(a): (What I'd like to be able to do in this kind of case is have Bodhi explain, hey, this package is critpath because $THIS_OTHER_PACKAGE depends on it, and if $THIS_OTHER_PACKAGE is working okay, then this package has fulfilled its critpath

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:43:14PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: I have posted some updates to mobile-broadband-provider-info. These are just data files for NetworkManager, they need frequent updates, and the biggest disaster which can happen in case of their brokenness (which is quite low,

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 00:18:24 -0700, Christopher Aillon cail...@redhat.com wrote: But not having a set of nightlies based on testing is a problem, and I think we really really need to fix that. I see no reason we need to pick one or the other, let's do both! That's probably an issue

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 18:19 -0700, Christopher Aillon wrote: I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are based on stable, not testing. I think that's something we need to address. It's probably still useful to have nightlies based on stable, but I think it's rather

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 23:21 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: I had a closer look at the raid setup on my f15-box and as the raid was up as expected and poking at the raid with mdadm didn't turn up any issues, I've given it positive karma which has made it Critpath approved. Thanks for that.

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:43 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: Dne 10.4.2011 23:07, Adam Williamson napsal(a): (What I'd like to be able to do in this kind of case is have Bodhi explain, hey, this package is critpath because $THIS_OTHER_PACKAGE depends on it, and if $THIS_OTHER_PACKAGE is working

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: O rly? Are you *sure*? Sure it's not at all possible there could be a bug somewhere in NM which causes it to crash because it misparses an odd character in one of the files, for instance? It's just a configuration / data file, it can't possibly break anything! is one of

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:41:25 +0900 TASAKA Mamoru mtas...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Tomasz Torcz wrote, at 04/09/2011 07:57 PM +9:00: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: - Anything goes, up to the maintainer. This gave us major updates in stable releases, That's a feature. :-) things that weren't tested very well or widely, Yet they worked… lots of smaller updates for minor things leading to churn, etc. Very few updates were genuinely

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-11 Thread Lars Seipel
On Monday 11 April 2011 13:58:21 Tomasz Torcz wrote: So people with cellphone as only internet connectivity option will be unable unable to download fixed packages? Nope. They just have to enter their connection settings manually. Instructions were provided by their ISP, probably along with

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread TASAKA Mamoru
Tomasz Torcz wrote, at 04/09/2011 07:57 PM +9:00: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with them. They might not know how to test libtiff, or what needs testing, so other stuff

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Doug Ledford
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 21:28 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 20:43:05 -0400, Will Woods wwo...@redhat.com wrote: The only thing broken here is the expectation that testing doesn't require your assistance, or isn't your problem. Except this affects more than Tom.

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Björn Persson
Doug Ledford wrote: Now I'm seeing new bugs trickle in about mdadm in the live image, and I have no clue if there is something I need to fix because I haven't gotten my update pushed to stable yet so these people are running against a known broken mdadm. The fixed mdadm makes changes

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:45:56PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: And here we are, about to go down the same road again. I have an update in updates-testing, it's getting no love, and the package that's in the release is *known broken*. It has not been updated for systemd to begin with. Nor

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Doug Ledford
The bug I'm looking at right now is specifically against the live image, so no I can't test that with something in updates testing. It needs to make it to the base before it gets on the live media to see if it solves the problem there. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 10, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Björn

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Piscium
On 10 April 2011 20:01, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: The bug I'm looking at right now is specifically against the live image, so no I can't test that with something in updates testing. It needs to make it to the base before it gets on the live media to see if it solves the problem

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Samstag, den 09.04.2011, 05:32 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler: Will Woods wrote: The solution is simple: ASK FOR HELP. The solution is simple: The red tape on update pushing needs to be repealed. As someone who is still suffering from the KDE 4.6.1 update and who has not received notable

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 12:45 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: And here we are, about to go down the same road again. I have an update in updates-testing, it's getting no love, and the package that's in the release is *known broken*. It has not been updated for systemd to begin with. Nor for tmpfs

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 15:01 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: The bug I'm looking at right now is specifically against the live image, so no I can't test that with something in updates testing. It needs to make it to the base before it gets on the live media to see if it solves the problem there.

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 20:34 +0100, Piscium wrote: On 10 April 2011 20:01, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: The bug I'm looking at right now is specifically against the live image, so no I can't test that with something in updates testing. It needs to make it to the base before it

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: For the past several days I've been getting daily nagmails about the fact that libtiff hasn't been pushed into f13 (example attached). Because it's a critpath package, I as the lowly maintainer do not have privileges to push it

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 21:47 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: I would generally agree with the brokenness of critical path. I maintain the libraries that provide support for certain fruit based iDevices and for some reason they're classed as crit path where as clutter which is one of the core

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christoph Wickert wrote: As someone who is still suffering from the KDE 4.6.1 update and who has not received notable support from your or the KDE SIG I object to lowering the test requirements for updates. Uh, we're doing what we can about the Akonadi issues. The thing is, we cannot

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Sonntag, den 10.04.2011, 23:12 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler: Christoph Wickert wrote: As someone who is still suffering from the KDE 4.6.1 update and who has not received notable support from your or the KDE SIG I object to lowering the test requirements for updates. Uh, we're doing

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christoph Wickert wrote: But I can and I haven't seen any instructions what I should do. I am willing to try broken update again in order to provide more info, but I can only provide the info I am asked for. Well, one thing worth testing is trying to figure out what part of kdepim or Akonadi

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Doug Ledford
That's good to know since I'm now out of contact after tonight. Can someone close out the erroneous mdadm bug if it's caused by something else then please? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 20:34 +0100, Piscium

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Doug Ledford
One of the changes in the updated mdadm package is to ghost /var/run/mdadm and to create it in the mdmonitor init script and also to set the SELinux state on the new dir. So while things booted ok for you, monitoring of arrays is DOA in the version prior to the update. Sent from my iPhone On

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Doug Ledford
Comment inline below: Sent from my iPhone On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 12:45 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: And here we are, about to go down the same road again. I have an update in updates-testing, it's getting no love, and

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Christopher Aillon
On 04/10/2011 01:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 12:45 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: And here we are, about to go down the same road again. I have an update in updates-testing, it's getting no love, and the package that's in the release is *known broken*. It has not been

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:19:26 -0700, Christopher Aillon cail...@redhat.com wrote: I just realized today for the first time that our nightlies are based on stable, not testing. I think that's something we need to address. It's probably still useful to have nightlies based on stable,

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Doug Ledford
On 04/10/2011 01:23 PM, Sven Lankes wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:45:56PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: And here we are, about to go down the same road again. I have an update in updates-testing, it's getting no love, and the package that's in the release is *known broken*. It has not

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-09 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with them. They might not know how to test libtiff, or what needs testing, so other stuff gets tested first. The fact is, this is a

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: Related to this, fesco wanted to look at some changes for security updates for stable releases: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/581 Hopefully something like this would help the above case. While I welcome those changes, I don't understand why we need to make the

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-09 Thread drago01
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with them. They might not know how to test libtiff, or what needs

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 13:31 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:32:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with them.

critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Tom Lane
For the past several days I've been getting daily nagmails about the fact that libtiff hasn't been pushed into f13 (example attached). Because it's a critpath package, I as the lowly maintainer do not have privileges to push it stable, not even after two weeks. Those who do have privileges to

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Will Woods
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 20:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I will refrain from ranting, and just point out that something is pretty darn broken about this process. Why are the nagmails going to someone with no power to fix the problem? Shouldn't somebody with approval power be paying more than zero

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 20:43 -0400, Will Woods wrote: The only thing broken here is the expectation that testing doesn't require your assistance, or isn't your problem. Well, F13 does tend to get pretty backed up; few people are running it any more. I boot a virt instance of it and do a

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 20:43:05 -0400, Will Woods wwo...@redhat.com wrote: The only thing broken here is the expectation that testing doesn't require your assistance, or isn't your problem. Except this affects more than Tom. Some people aren't getting updates because of the

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Will Woods wrote: In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging with them. They might not know how to test libtiff, or what needs testing, so other stuff gets tested first. The fact is, this is a SECURITY UPDATE and as such it should go out even without testing. It's

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Related to this, fesco wanted to look at some changes for security updates for stable releases: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/581 Hopefully something like this would help the above case. kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list