Plan for Today's (20070625) Release Engineering meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Jesse Keating schrieb:
>> I think the gameplan is that the maintainer would have to manually 
>> request the autotimeout at update submission time.  It wouldn't be 
>> pre-set.  But again, that's a detail to work out.
>>   
> Autotimeout means, that the maintainer main configure a time period 
> after this the package
> may be submitted into updates if not blocks exist.
> 
> At first, I think that is not a good Idea to make such a push 
> automatically. The second
> issue may, that a maintainer make configure a very shout timeout period, 
> so the testers or QA
> may have no chance to do there work and blocks broken updates.

That's also the case when the maintainer decides to skip updates-testing 
completely which is possible in the current setup.

Rahul