critpath approval process seems rather broken

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> For the past several days I've been getting daily nagmails about the
> fact that libtiff hasn't been pushed into f13 (example attached).
> Because it's a critpath package, I as the lowly maintainer do not have
> privileges to push it stable, not even after two weeks.  Those who do
> have privileges to approve this sort of thing evidently are paying no
> attention to f13 packages, not even security bugs on critpath packages.
>
> I will refrain from ranting, and just point out that something is
> pretty darn broken about this process.  Why are the nagmails going
> to someone with no power to fix the problem?  Shouldn't somebody
> with approval power be paying more than zero attention to older
> branches?

I would generally agree with the brokenness of critical path. I
maintain the libraries that provide support for certain fruit based
iDevices and for some reason they're classed as crit path where as
clutter which is one of the core libraries of gnome 3 and its not. I
don't get it!

Peter