[6541] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Collaboration document update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Dec 3 15:48:38 2009
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:42:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> So does anybody have ideas for how we can allow for urgent updates
> without sacrificing quality control?
I think one thing that would help is reintroducing something akin to
early-linux with a scope at least as big as the Debathena Beta deployment,
so we can tell users "Can you go try it on one of these machines and see
if your bug is fixed".
We could either do this with another apt repository or via machines that
take updates less frequently (some way to remotely inhibit or force
updates on a certain machine would be kind of cool -- if we did that we
could even say "We've pushed an update to your machine, can you log out,
wait for the update to apply, and log back in").
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
