On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 21:12, Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does it make sense for packages to wait in testing for two weeks when they 
> are new packages?
>

Thanks for bringing this up. I was hoping to get this mentioned before
FLOCK etc but we have been snowed under in Fedora Infrastructure. I
would like for the developers and consumers to give some feedback on
what they think are appropriate deadlines. The ones we have now are
mostly inertia.


> For example, all the packages I'm building for the first time in epel8...
>
> Even outside of new packages I rarely get karma for my Fedora packages, much 
> less for my EPEL packages and two weeks is a "long time". I have some 
> upstreams where I have to skip releases because they update within the two 
> week period and the policy of obsoleting an update when a new one is created 
> would mean they would perpetually be in testing and never make it to stable.
>

Would those upstreams make more sense in epel-playground only? Those
go into the compose tree as soon as possible.

> Perhaps it would be a good idea to let the maintainer determine if a previous 
> update should be obsoleted or not when pushing a new update?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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