[arch-dev-public] Possible signoff addendum

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Aug 31 04:24:24 EDT 2008


Aaron Griffin wrote:
> One of the things I was thinking about, because sometimes signoffs can
> stagnate....
>
> Should we have a time-based limit?
>
> That is, if a package has been in testing for X days, with no
> complaints, but no signoffs, yet, can we consider it fully functional,
> assuming the packager is comfortable with that.
>
> I'd like opinions on this. I'm trying to solve the issue of the big
> ol' backlog of pending-signoff packages.
>   

I quite like this idea.  A "no bug report after given period of time = 
no problems" strategy should work as the community can do a lot more 
testing in total than we can.

Allan





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