On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 21:24 +0200, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
Am 2016-06-30 09:41, schrieb Johannes Löthberg via arch-dev-public:
That has actually come up on IRC a lot of times over the last couple years, users asking how to sign-off packages / if they can help signing-off.
I've already got 4 people willing to help, but nobody here voiced an opinion on this matter yet. Do we want such tester from a dev/TU perspective?
Florian
I think it makes a lot of sense. If there are people willing to contribute in this area, it would be wise to accept the help. Testing and signoffs doesn't need to be something restricted to an inner trusted group of people. Developers could always make their own decisions based on who signs off on packages. I stopped using [testing] since my focus has increasingly on other projects (i.e. work) and I don't have time to spare on coping with more issues from upgrades. That means I'm no longer testing the packages, so I'm not able to do signoffs anymore simply based on my regular usage of the packages. Perhaps others are in a similar situation. When I was using [testing] (i.e. until recently), I often didn't sign off for packages that do get used a bit on my system because I didn't consider it thorough enough testing even if it's just supposed to be a basic smoke test to make sure it links and runs at all.