critpath approval process seems rather broken

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Apr 11 19:37:27 UTC 2011


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> - Anything goes, up to the maintainer.
> 
> This gave us major updates in stable releases,

That's a feature. :-)

> things that weren't tested very well or widely,

Yet they worked…

> lots of smaller updates for minor things leading to churn, etc.

Very few updates were genuinely useless. Even a minor bugfix is a bugfix and 
should get pushed. Fighting "churn" as a "problem" only leads to sitting on 
fixes instead of getting them out to our users as soon as possible. Churn is 
a feature!

        Kevin Kofler



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