On 02/27/2010 12:43 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:55 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> I requested a direct push to stable. Which was denied. I was unhappy that
> we would not stop a DOS attack within weeks (my packages hardly ever get
> any karma feedback despite their obvious use, though I must say that did
> change for dnssec-conf after it blew up). So I objected, and got my way.
As I said in my other mail, lack of feedback is not necessarily
meaningless. If your update sits there for a week with no -1s, that
gives us a decent idea it doesn't massively break anything: exactly as
this proves. You may not get any +1s for dnssec-conf when it doesn't
break anything, but - as you admit - you *do* get -1s when it breaks
everything.
Glad you mention dnssec-conf.
1) It only received votes, because one of releases broke things badly
and because Paul F. loudly asked the public to test.
2) Recent dnssec-conf updates all did receive several -1, nevertheless
these updates were pushed.
3) dnssec-conf-1.21-8.fc12.noarch does not work for me, it's as broken
as its predecessors for me.
=> This system doesn't work.
So the system does, in fact, work, in so far as it gives us
a usable indication of very bad breakages.
IMO, only on occasions the damage
already has happened (dnssec-conf).
The vast majority of packages gets pushed without any votes.
Ralf