critpath approval process seems rather broken

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Apr 9 03:32:04 UTC 2011


Will Woods wrote:
> In fact, there's plenty of approvers available, but you're not engaging
> with them. They might not know how to test libtiff, or what needs
> testing, so other stuff gets tested first.

The fact is, this is a SECURITY UPDATE and as such it should go out even 
without testing. It's not acceptable to sit on security updates for weeks. 
And it's just a FACT that Fedora n-1 gets near-zero testing.

> The solution is simple: ASK FOR HELP.

The solution is simple: The red tape on update pushing needs to be repealed.

        Kevin Kofler



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