On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One reason that it takes time to get signoffs for certain packages is > that we don't know if enough devs use it to get the required signoff. > For instance, I don't use openvpn. How many devs use openvpn? I don't > know and probably no-one does. A while ago, I started this: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs#List_of_potential_signees_for_low-usage_core_packages > to fix that issue but basically no-one bothered to fill it up. If we > would know how many dev use these low usage packages, then we could > automatically send the signoff thread to both the dev ML and to the > arch-general ML and specifically ask for users signoff instead of > waiting for dev signoffs that will never come. > That's what I was thinking about, how to get more people involved for signoff. You could either ask more often for user signoff on arch-general, or maybe give the status of testers to some active arch members who use testing (if any users are interested at all..)
