On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:43:42 +0200
Santakivi Topi <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/21/2010 10:33 AM, Tatu Lahtela wrote:
> > On 12/21/2010 10:19 AM, ext Carsten Munk wrote:
> >> 2010/12/21 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >>
> >>     On 12/20/2010 9:53 PM, Kangkai Yin wrote:
> >>
> >>         Hi,
> >>         Adding new package kernel-adaptation-oaktrail in project
> >>         Trunk:Testing. Please review and accept ASAP.
> >>
> >>         Justification for this new package:
> >>
> >>         The kernel for Oaktrail, fix #BMC 11588
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     ok this is getting silly
> >>
> >>     opening dummy bugs just to get past the paperwork, just so you
> >> can claim you "fixed" a bug...
> >>
> >>     our bureaucrazy has gone waaaay too far.
> >>
> >>     We're in a development window, not in a "code freeze strict
> >>     bugfixes only" part of the schedule!
> >>
> >> Well, and we're side-stepping program management totally by having
> >> those dummy bugs. A new package should be a FEA# and approved by
> >> program management as per
> >> http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Process#Package_quality_expectations_for_submissions_into_.2A:Testing_projects
> >>
> >> Either we start enforcing it for everything or we have to modify
> >> the rules to fit reality... Proposals welcome?
> >
> > So what was missing from this submission, the ACCEPTED stat? Without
> > snake oiling (i.e. calling/msging the prog managers) it can take
> > weeks to have it.
> 
> What was missing was that basically nobody else but the package
> sender was informed of the upcoming package before it was actually
> sent to Trunk:Testing.
> 
> With Feature requests, the additions are more clearly
> planned (and that process perhaps needs some kind of a speedup).
> 
> But having that is still better than a bug-avalanche for
> inflowing packages people are submitting without asking anyone.

Which, as Arjan suggested, is EXACTLY what a community based project is
supposed to have, "inflowing packages people are submitting without
asking anyone".  If/when we get there, I'd call that a measure of success.

<tangent>
This might not be such a problem if the community OBS would get it's
act together and start accepting SR's to Extras (or Surrounds, or *any*
non-home project).  I've got a package I submitted to Extras 3 weeks
ago now[1] yet it's still sitting there with no action and no
visibility as to what the hold up is, or how  much longer it will sit
there :/

It's beginning to feel alot like the Apple AppStore submission process,
a black hole.
</tangent>

Shane...
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