On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Another alternative:
- Create a web based interface to allow community users to signoff on packages. We could have a policy of X number of user signoffs is equal to one developer signoff. Developers can be trusted to test it better (or not? ;-), but arch members can contribute too. In that case we still need some incentive to the end users to bother doing this. There aren't a lot of people like dolby and cactus who seem to actually like working really hard with as little recognition as possible.
I actually thought about this a while back. It was in terms of "each package needs 10 points, developer signoffs are 5 points, TU signoffs are 3 points, user signoffs are one point" It might be a useful way to find active community members too. If you could think of a way to creatively implement something like this, I'd be all for it, assuming other people are. But yeah, I think you may be right about the "encouraging people not to sign off at all" part. It would make people lazy.