Let's get moving

David Botsch dwb7 at ccmr.cornell.edu
Fri Sep 3 19:51:28 UTC 2004


Who is currently responsible for doing this? And who has permissions to 
delegate this off to a few other people?

On 2004.09.02 13:24 Johnny Strom wrote:
> David Botsch wrote:
>> If I read the QA doc correctly, what it actually refers to is 
>> getting stuff put
>> into updates-testing, not moved out of updates-testing to updates.
>> 
>> After talking w. some folk in the channel, my understanding is that 
>> after 2
>> weeks, if no one objects, packages should be moved from 
>> updates-testing to
>> updates and released as final.
>> 
>> Unless I misunderstood, it also seems that only one person currently 
>> has the
>> ability to actually do this. And, 2 weeks is also way, way, way tooo 
>> long. A
>> couple days is more like it.
> 
> 
> Yes that's right the problem is that it have taken to long to get 
> them to a relase so how can we speed this up?
> I think we need 2 or 3 ppl that have the rights to make relases.
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:57:57AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
>> 
>>> Matt Nuzum wrote, On 9/2/2004 7:48 AM:
>>> 
>>>> I suggest that FLP create time-lines for which people can expect
>>>> support.  RH 7.x (x>=1) came out in 2001, right?  How long does the
>>>> community want to support it?
>>> 
>>> It is quite clear how long RH 7.3 and 9 will be supported for, see 
>>> the FAQ: http://www.fedoralegacy.org/about/faq.php  While it is not 
>>> a specific date, I do not see that as a problem.  It will be 
>>> supported as long as there is community support.
>>> 
>>> In the end that is what the FL project requires to succeed, 
>>> community support.  However, it just isn't a very exciting job to 
>>> do backporting and testing of legacy software.
>>> 
>>> For those of you wanting to see packages make it out of -testing, 
>>> please see the QA Testing document.  It does quite a good job of 
>>> describing the QA process.
>>> 
>>> http://www.fedoralegacy.org/wiki/index.php/QaTesting
>>> 
>>> -Dave
>>> 
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