Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 24.10.2008 16:38, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> Yesterday a request to move a package to stable early was made. I >> denied it because the reason given was "due to popular customer >> demand" there is no way to measure that. and the next stable push >> will be just over a week away. That was perfectly valid answer and I didn't complain. For the reference here is my request and some background so you don't need to talk about "a package", it's very concrete situation: <blockquote><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">collectd has been sitting in EPEL testing for a while now, latest bugfix release build is <a href="http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/job.psp?uid=510" target="_blank">http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/job.psp?uid=510</a> Due to popular customer demand, please move it into the EPEL proper at your next convenience. </blockquote></blockquote>Thing is that we've not seen collectd reaching EPEL proper, it was first built in EPEL by rjones in August, then I did two minor bugfix release in September and last one was few days ago. Until now I hoped this rule applies: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#I_built_a_package_and_plague_lists_it_as_part_of_the_needsign-queue._What_do_I_need_to_do_to_get_the_package_into_EPEL.3F">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#I_built_a_package_and_plague_lists_it_as_part_of_the_needsign-queue._What_do_I_need_to_do_to_get_the_package_into_EPEL.3F</a> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Just wait. The packages from the needsign queue get pushed by the epel-signers to the testing repos about two to four times a week. Packages from testing are normally automatically moved to the stable repos at the beginning of the next month.</blockquote><div> Since collectd already missed two montly updates, I was concerned that it would be missed again, hence I brought this to epel_signers attention - I'm sorry for not being clear enough in my request. Re. popular customer demand - if more than 1 customer asks about, I consider it popular, that's my metrics. What's yours? </div>