On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
One reason that it takes time to get signoffs for certain packages is that we don't know if enough devs use it to get the required signoff. For instance, I don't use openvpn. How many devs use openvpn? I don't know and probably no-one does. A while ago, I started this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs#List_of_poten... to fix that issue but basically no-one bothered to fill it up. If we would know how many dev use these low usage packages, then we could automatically send the signoff thread to both the dev ML and to the arch-general ML and specifically ask for users signoff instead of waiting for dev signoffs that will never come.
That's what I was thinking about, how to get more people involved for signoff. You could either ask more often for user signoff on arch-general, or maybe give the status of testers to some active arch members who use testing (if any users are interested at all..)