On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:23:37AM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:18:38PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
place. The idea was never that some magic independent group of testers would spend the rest of their lives doing nothing but test updates.
This idea was never prominently communicated as the default situation. Iirc it was said that there are lots of people who want the update criteria and will test updates. Making package maintainers now start to beg for their updates to be tested is imho just a big waste of time. Also there is no dispensable manpower from package maintainers available, so requiring them to additionally test each other updates manually and to maintain test machines is not a good idea. The whole update criteria enforcement only works if there are enough dedicated testers that provide extra manpower. Or if the testing is all automated.
This was my impression too... I've read adamw's reply to this message so I'll just reply here that I got that impression from the email threads rather than from the fesco meeting logs specifically. Note that I did see that there was a shift in some people saying that package maintainers should be responsible for mobilising testers at some point... but at that point I must have already got the wrong impression in my head.
-Toshio