Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 10/28/06, Tim Jackson <lists at timj.co.uk> wrote:
> Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>
> > However, he raised another interesting topic, stating that he felt the
> > package was "blitz reviewed": so, why don't we add a fixed delay from
> > a given point in the review ( for example, from the last update to the
> > package, or from putting FE-ACCEPT on it).
>
> I'm not sure this is a great idea unless $fixed_delay is quite short. It
> may add unnecessary/pointless/irritating delays to trivial or
> uncontentious packages.

True. I was thinking something like  a week

>
> What might be more useful in terms of soliciting opinion would be some
> kind of notification to fedora-extras-list when the package request is
> first submitted (but no subsequent Bugzilla noise), to gain a wider
> audience and attention to the fact that a particular package is being
> proposed.

Or an RSS feed...