Why are updates processed so slowly?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 05.02.2009, 07:30 -0500 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:44:38PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >I built a package last Friday. Update was created Fri 21:33 and is has
> >been pushed to testing today at 3:20.
> >
> >So why did it take more than 5 days or 122 hrs to get it pushed? Are
> >security-updates also processed that slowly?
> 
> Because a human has to sign all the packages and start the push.  That
> human happened to be killing himself trying to get Alpha out the door.

And how do we assure that security updates get out while that single
human is working on something else? (Serious question!)

> josh
> 

Regards,
Christoph