On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:32:55AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > > My experience with the new package process is that the review process in > > Step 6 doesn't work. For some of my packages it took 3 months for a > > reviewer to appear, some others more, some where reviewed faster. My > > understanding is that it depends on how interesting the package is, how > > many packagers you know, or whether you enter the review swap market. > > Indeed, the review process is the main roadblock to getting things done in > Fedora. > > > IMHO, one easy solution to alleviate the problem would be to let experienced > packagers (ones that are provenpackagers and/or packager sponsors) import > their packages without a review (or with a self-review). I doubt that pp and sponsors have packages stuck in the review queue. Those people have to communicate with other people in Fedora a lot, so attracting some attention to a review ticket should not be hard. Do you have any examples?
> We already trust > these packagers to know what they're doing, and in particular, to know the > packaging guidelines. So they should be perfectly able to verify the > compliance of their own packages on their own. Doing this would clear a > significant portion of the review queue instantly, and free up valuable > reviewer time for those packages that really do need reviewing, those coming > from new packagers. You're probably right a self-review would be sufficient in a great majority of cases, but let's check that it's actually necessary first. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
