On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 14:27 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
Surely it's more likely that it just delays the discovery of the
botched
update?
I don't think updates-testing should be batched. Testers should of
course still get all test updates ASAP.
The only way it reduces the risk of releasing a botched update is
the
the updates somehow get more testing just by staying in the testing
channel longer.
...and actual QA, from the professionals and volunteers on the QA team,
who are very good at finding bugs pre-release but currently do zero QA
on our updates because it's an unmanageable rolling stream of a
bazillion separate updates. With batched updates, you can test a batch
with the same overall criteria used for releases to see if it's
botched. That's the advantage of batching over simply extending the
amount of time spent in updates-testing.
Which makes the question whether botched updates happen because not
enough people use testing, or because there are enough people using
it
but they don't have enough time to spot the problems before the
updates
get pushed.
We indeed do not need batched updates to extend the length of time
updates remain in testing. We could (and should) do that immediately.
Michael