[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] package signoffs

[Xavier Chantry]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at 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_potential_signees_for_low-usage_core_packages
> 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..)