Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] package signoffs
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..)
maybe give the status of testers to some active arch members who use testing (if any users are interested at all..)
+1 to the idea. this work can be delegated to active users who have enabled [testing] repo. a special status can be given to them with a fancy name like "Package Quality & Testing" Team.being a member of this team won't need any special knowledge, so anyone who wants to contribute can join and help. the only requirement should, usage of [testing] repo And dev can focus their previous time other useful work. Regards, Gaurish Sharma
On 10 February 2010 15:35, Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> wrote:
maybe give the status of testers to some active arch members who use testing (if any users are interested at all..)
+1 to the idea. this work can be delegated to active users who have enabled [testing] repo. a special status can be given to them with a fancy name like "Package Quality & Testing" Team.being a member of this team won't need any special knowledge, so anyone who wants to contribute can join and help. the only requirement should, usage of [testing] repo
And dev can focus their previous time other useful work.
Regards, Gaurish Sharma
I'd be interested, been using the "testing" packages for a while now. And incidentally I use openvpn almost on a daily basis. From the list I'm also using ipw2200-fw, wpa_supplicant (not counting those that are marked with "Everyone"). Probably could check others as well when I have more time. Cheers, Greg
On 02/10/2010 08:35 AM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
maybe give the status of testers to some active arch members who use testing (if any users are interested at all..)
+1 to the idea. this work can be delegated to active users who have enabled [testing] repo. a special status can be given to them with a fancy name like "Package Quality & Testing" Team.being a member of this team won't need any special knowledge, so anyone who wants to contribute can join and help. the only requirement should, usage of [testing] repo
On 02/10/2010 10:22 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
I apologize for that. I sometimes don't have the time to update my system for a while week and when I do, I forgot which signoffs are pending.
I'd suggest making a webui tracking all signoffs and also showing which packages are ready to be moved (read something about moving after 1 week without signoffs). -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
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Florian Pritz
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Gaurish Sharma
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Gergely Imreh
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Xavier Chantry