[arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

[Allan McRae]

On 02/07/16 06:18, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2016/06/28 08:09:
>> For a while now packages in [testing] have gotten little to no signoffs
>> and I've been moving mine to [core] after a week without feedback. I
>> suspect many of you have been doing this too.
> 
> Yes, probably everybody does. ;)
> 
> I do not run a system with [testing] enabled by default. I need my main
> system in production every day - stable and reliable.
> Packages that I really do want and/or need end up in my personal repository
> for testing, though. I do give spare signoffs, but that packages received
> real testing then.
> 
> Possibly we should modify the process a bit: Expect a package to be fine
> when it received enough signoffs - as is. Additionally add a NACK feature that
> expresses something is (possibly) borked. If the package did not receive a
> NACK within 48 or 72 hours it is expected to be fine as well.
> Our bug wrangler Doug could have an eye on bugs that look critical and set
> NACKs for the packages.

This sounds like the Fedora policy where packages have to surpass a
certain karma level to move into the main repositories.  I'm not sure
who gets to vote for that though.

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