Fedora 17 Change Freeze

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 07:30 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>
>> the fedora 17 schedule
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule lists the final
>> change freeze as 2012-05-07 this means that you need to make sure that
>> any changes you want in Fedora 17 final must be submited for stable in
>> Bodhi before 2012-05-07 there will be a small window on monday where
>> you can get your build in still but it is not assured. after this time
>> only blocker bugs will be accepted to be pushed for stable.  please
>> work on testing and ensuring anything you want in final has the
>> appropriate karma. If you have questions please drop by #fedora-releng
>> on freenode
>
>
> I have a critical path update that has been in testing since 18th April:
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-6165/perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.66-1.fc17
>
> It's now over two weeks in testing (no feedback, either positive or
> negative) but I still can't push it to stable - why not?

Because it's a critical path package and they need at least 2+ karma.
I've added one, you'll need to find another.

Peter