[Mageia-dev] Updates process is now available

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 21 juin 2011 à 18:57 +0200, Damien Lallement a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
> security, qa and sysadmin team worked on the qa/updates process to 
> provide updates as soon as possible.
> All is now ready (boklm is finalizing a scrip to move updates from 
> "testing" to "updates"). This script will be uses by security team 
> members and a few QA people to push updates.
> 
> You can now read:
> - http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
> - http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=qa_updates

I have some questions about the page 
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=qa_updates

"It's a new package fixing a bug (security or not) or adding a missing
feature."

Adding a missing feature is not part of a update as we defined it so
this part seems strange to me, could this one be clarified ?


"Don't forget to enable the i586 medias on x86_64 systems" 

I do not understand why is should be needed ( except for nspluginwrapper
). Is there something to watch for when doing this ?

"Write an validation message"

I do not understand what is the validation message about, could we
clarify the goal of the message, or add a example ? 

"Rewrite the advisory for the secteam (ask the developper to provide the
advisory if missing)"

IIRC, the advisory should have been provided by the packager ( according
to the others page ), so why rewrite it ? Isn't it a left over ?
Unless what it mean "check that the packager said something that normal
people will understand" ? 
Also, on the page, "developer", is "upstream developer", or "packager
who take care of the update" ?


-- 
Michael Scherer