best practices for updates in stable releases (was: Re: OpenOffice 3.1)

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:29 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:04 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > rel-eng refuses to push updates which are blatantly ignoring the
> > guidelines?
> > 
> > i.e. follow a similar process to what we during the freeze
> 
> It's hard for one person to timely review hundreds of update requests to
> figure out which are ignoring the guidelines and which aren't.

Agreed, it shouldn't fall to one person.

e.g. during the freeze, I noticed at least spot, notting, warren, jwb,
rdieter and yourself reviewing tag requests. I'm sure others would be
happy to help too, I know I would.

Cheers,
Mark.