On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:23:37AM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:18:38PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > place. The idea was never that some magic independent group of testers > > would spend the rest of their lives doing nothing but test updates. > > This idea was never prominently communicated as the default > situation. Iirc it was said that there are lots of people who want the > update criteria and will test updates. Making package maintainers now > start to beg for their updates to be tested is imho just a big waste of > time. Also there is no dispensable manpower from package maintainers > available, so requiring them to additionally test each other updates > manually and to maintain test machines is not a good idea. The whole > update criteria enforcement only works if there are enough dedicated > testers that provide extra manpower. Or if the testing is all automated. > This was my impression too... I've read adamw's reply to this message so I'll just reply here that I got that impression from the email threads rather than from the fesco meeting logs specifically. Note that I did see that there was a shift in some people saying that package maintainers should be responsible for mobilising testers at some point... but at that point I must have already got the wrong impression in my head. -Toshio
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