Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > Some Red Hat employees are opening new merge review tickets for packages > which were in extras long before the big core-extras merge. It looks > like all of these packages are so old that the reviews predate the use > of Red Hat's bugzilla for the purpose, and so those reviews were either > done on the old mailing list or in the old fedora.us bugzilla (which I > believe has been lost). > > No Fedora policy requires that these packages be re-reviewed. The > evidence seems to point to some Red Hat policy requiring review tickets > for these packages, although I can't seem to get a proper answer from > someone who actually knows. There is a new internal process that encourages that packages have existing Fedora reviews. This is likely a consequence of that, although it's certainly never mentioned directly in the process. (I'd suspect that there is likely to be some uptick in merge review activity as well.) > Given that the reviewers are currently > overburdened and are barely able to keep up with existing submissions, > plus the fact that we still have a few hundred of the original merge > review tickets still open, I don't think that adding more to the pile is > going to be remotely helpful. If there's a Red Hat policy which > requires this, then Red Hat should be taking care of this instead of > leaving it to the overburdened Fedora community. The fact that there's > been no communication about it only adds insult to injury. > > I propose that the 'Product' on these tickets be changed to something > other than 'Fedora' so that they don't appear to be part of any Fedora > process. I'm happy to do that if someone can tell me which component to > use. How so? They're reviews of Fedora packages. If the queue's not being processed quickly, the queue won't be processed quickly. If these reviews need quick attention, then I suspect resources will need to be assigned to them. If they don't, then they won't. I'm not convinced that adding 12 packages to the queue (the current count of these) is anything to worry about, given that we get more new submissions than that per week already without any other controls. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
