Proposed udpates policy change

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:26:15PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>
>> -1 to this. I've packaged a number of things that I know just one user of.
>> I have no idea how many people actually use my packages or how to reach
>> them. Therefore it will most likely be impossible for me to get +3 on each
>> update and they'll never get out of testing. Do you really want this?
>
> No, and it's an entirely fair question. I don't expect this proposal to
> be passed as is - there's going to be further discussion of the details,
> and the necessary conditions for something to be considered sufficiently
> tested are clearly something that we need to think about carefully. If
> there's a tiny number of users then we still want the package to be
> tested, but hitting +3 may be implausible.

Thanks,
-sv