Packages stuck in fedora-testing?

I’d like to better understand the release process of Fedora. The following packages have been voted for stable, reached their threshold, but seem to be stuck afterwards for several days.

Examples:

strawberry-0.7.2-3.fc33 was voted for stable 4 days ago. But it’s still on status yellow: “testing->stable”. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-e2e1863920

mesa-20.2.1-2.fc33 was voted for stable 1 day ago. But it’s still on status yellow: “testing->stable”. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4e7de46ac9

Is the “testing->stable” transition/migration currently postponed due to the upcoming F33 release or maybe server issues of Bodhi?

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Yes. Only packages that fix release-blocking bugs or get a special exception can go into stable after the Final Freeze (which for F33 was on October 6th). Once F33 is officially released, all those packages will be in the Fedora 33 Updates repository as zero-day updates. More details here.

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So, if you are running F33 beta, this shouldn’t make a difference because as long as it is “pre-release”, the updates-testing repository is enabled. So you receive all updates.

This is why a netinstall method is so much more efficient. You just download the latest packages once, and not ~2 GB of updates on day 0.

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Hi florian,

So, if you are running F33 beta, this shouldn’t make a difference because as long as it is “pre-release”, the updates-testing repository is enabled . So you receive all updates.

The fedora-release/fedora-repos (not at a machine to check the exact name of the packages) stable update came in 4 days ago which disabled the testing repositories. So most F33 setups seem to be in a limbo between testing (disabled) and updates (hold back until release) for now.

Edit: All my machines are running Fedora Silverblue 33. I hope/assume the situation is the same for Fedora WS 33.

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Yes, you are right!

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-941b0d5a2e

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