The solution on the Karma threshold problem is fairly simple - it should be adaptive to the number of voters or package users. Big projects like OO.org or Thunderbird should require more upticks than little projects like some game that only 5 people download in the first place.
Thunderbird and Fedora: what should a package update change?
Posted Oct 22, 2009 5:11 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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The default karma value of 3 can be changed to any number decided by the package maintainers. They can choose to disable auto promoting based on Karma as well.
Thunderbird and Fedora: what should a package update change?
Posted Oct 22, 2009 9:02 UTC (Thu) by djc (subscriber, #56880)
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Well, I think it's wrong for a distributor to change such important defaults. Also, this is a beta after all; only people who are on some unstable track should get this kind of stuff.
Thunderbird and Fedora: what should a package update change?
Posted Oct 22, 2009 9:36 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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True which is why it got reverted back in the next update.