On 02/07/16 06:18, Christian Hesse wrote:
Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> on Tue, 2016/06/28 08:09:
For a while now packages in [testing] have gotten little to no signoffs and I've been moving mine to [core] after a week without feedback. I suspect many of you have been doing this too.
Yes, probably everybody does. ;)
I do not run a system with [testing] enabled by default. I need my main system in production every day - stable and reliable. Packages that I really do want and/or need end up in my personal repository for testing, though. I do give spare signoffs, but that packages received real testing then.
Possibly we should modify the process a bit: Expect a package to be fine when it received enough signoffs - as is. Additionally add a NACK feature that expresses something is (possibly) borked. If the package did not receive a NACK within 48 or 72 hours it is expected to be fine as well. Our bug wrangler Doug could have an eye on bugs that look critical and set NACKs for the packages.
This sounds like the Fedora policy where packages have to surpass a certain karma level to move into the main repositories. I'm not sure who gets to vote for that though. A