Why are updates processed so slowly?

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:44:38PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>I built a package last Friday. Update was created Fri 21:33 and is has
>been pushed to testing today at 3:20.
>
>So why did it take more than 5 days or 122 hrs to get it pushed? Are
>security-updates also processed that slowly?

Because a human has to sign all the packages and start the push.  That
human happened to be killing himself trying to get Alpha out the door.

josh