amending the new package process

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 21 13:16:53 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<nmav at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 12:10 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> > I'd like to propose an amendment to allow
>> > bringing packages even if no reviewers are available (the typical case).
>> >
>> > Step 6: ... If the proposed package is not reviewed for 2 months, the
>> > package must be reviewed by the submitter, and a git module with the
>> > master branch will be approved.
>> The self review doesn't make sense, since I expect you did the package
>> to your best knowledge already and you really want second pair of eyes
>> to find any issues which slipped through your hands.
>> At least myself, I always looking for reviewer who cares to find every
>> issues I missed, challenge my knowledge and I'd be quite unhappy to
>> discover later that something slipped through review unnoticed.
>
> That's wishful thinking. I proposed that rule in order to make apparent
> the fact that there are not enough reviewers and new packages are
> blocked in the queue. Ignoring the fact isn't going to make it go away.

I've often thought having a "staging" repository for packages in this
state would be nice.  They could be worked on there, and then promoted
to the full repo when they passed review.

josh


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