[arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

On 2016-06-28 20:09, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> 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. Here's the signoff reports
> over the last ten days:
> 
> - June 19: 0 signoffs
> - June 20: 6 from me, 4 from anthraxx
> - June 21: 0
> - June 22: 5 from me
> - June 23: 2 from demize
> - June 24: 1 from me
> - June 25: 0
> - June 26: 1 from me
> - June 27: 3 from me, 1 from eworm
> - June 28: 3 from heftig, 2 from arojas
> 
> So I've decided to shorten the wait in [testing] to 48 hours. Many
> updates to [core] packages include security fixes and they have better
> move sooner rather than later. We used to be able to gather enough
> signoffs to move these within a day or two, and that's what I intend to
> do with or without signoffs.
> 
> Any comment, and especially any other idea to fix this situation, is
> welcome.
> 
> Cheers.
> 

I have the same problem with my packages. I usually wait a couple of
days (up to week) if there is no security fixes. I guess we can just
move to lazy consensus mode and assume if nobody complains, the package
is fine and move it after 48-76 hours.

Bartłomiej

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