Proposed udpates policy change

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/09/2010 12:53 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 18:45 -0500, Steven M. Parrish wrote:
>> As a maintainer I have seen several of my packages sit in updates testing for
>> over 2 weeks with no comments and no karma.  In fact they sat so long I got
>> nag mail about not pushing them.  Requiring a karma of +3 to push is just not
>> going to work by itself.  If anything it should be 'An update cannot be pushed
>> to stable until either it reaches a Karma of +3 or it has been in updates
>> testing for 14 days with no negative karma."
>
> There is a chicken/egg problem here.  Karma isn't required, ergo it
> doesn't happen.  If karma is required, we might see an increase in karma
> registered, as well as an uptick in tools development to help provide
> karma (we're already seeing this in F13, one could conclude that part of
> that is because karma is required for critpath packages).

=> All you're going to see is further bureaucracy and bureaucratic 
overhead, but you'r not going to see better package quality.

Ralf