Re: Release update: base and standard frozen
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:14:03PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > I don't think it's going to be possible to encourage developers to upload
> > their packages at a slow but steady rate.
>
> Sure it's possible to _encourage_ people. Whether they actually _do_ it is
> a different problem altogether...
Heh. Point taken.
> > Would it be technically possible to restrain testing propagation to all
> > packages initially uploaded before a certain date/time?
>
> It is. "Turn off upload to Unstable at that date". Easy.
There'd hopefully be something better than that available, because
disallowing uploads to sid just seems Wrong. I only know what it looks like
from the developer's end, but a testing migration test that produced
something in the excuses like "Uploaded after 2004-08-15: not a candidate
for testing migration" or something of that sort.
- Matt
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