Updates: karma and timeouts

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:38:19PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, folks.
> 
> So I've had a feeling lately that the amount of karma being filed on
> updates has dropped - especially since proventesters was axed - but I
> don't have hard numbers. I've put it on my todo list to check into this
> and do what I can to fix it, though. Testers, as I always nag, please
> keep up karma efforts - even though proventesters is inactive at
> present, updates still need karma! Whether you're a proventester or not,
> please keep up filing karma, for F16 as well as F17. Thanks.
> 
> Secondly - something developers can do: remember that there's a 7-day /
> 14-day timeout rule for your updates! You can push non-critpath updates
> 7 days after they go to updates-testing even if they have zero karma,
> and critpath updates after 14 days.
> 
> 14 days is kind of a long time and it's easy to forget, so it's probably
> a good idea to sign into Bodhi every so often and check if you have any
> updates sitting in updates-testing where the timeout has expired and you
> can now push them stable if you so choose. I have noticed a few updates
> where the deadline expired some time ago that haven't been pushed yet.
> Obviously in some cases the devs may be choosing not to push the updates
> until they get some karma, but I thought I'd just put out a general
> reminder just in case. Thanks folks!

An email goes out letting the packager know their package has reached
the 7 day minimum. I think if those packages are languishing, it's like
the packager was already notified and chose not to push.

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
http://mcpierce.multiply.com/
"What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
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