On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:38:57 -0800 Shane Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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... Forgot the reference: [1]https://build.pub.meego.com/request/show/2 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
