On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:03 AM Sasha Litvak
<alexander.v.litvak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
* I am bothered with a quality of the releases of a very complex system that
can bring down a whole house and keep it down for a while. While I wish the
QA would be perfect, I wonder if it would be practical to release new
packages to a testing repo before moving it to a main one. There is a
chance then someone will detect a problem before it becomes a production
issue. Let it seat for a couple days or weeks in testing. People who need
new update right away or just want to test will install it and report the
problems. Others will not be affected.
I think it would be a good step forward to have a separate "testing"
repository. This repository would be a little more cutting-edge, and we'd copy
all the binaries over to the "main" repository location after 48 hours or
something.
This would let us all publicly test the candidate GPG-signed packages, for
example.
- Ken