Re: More 5 november in the release schedule
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:56:09 +0100, wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:46:36 +0100, Samuel Thibault
> <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:54 +0100, wrote:
> >> On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +0000, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >Releasing Debian is work for all of us, not just the Release Team...
> >>
> >> So you are actually suggesting that people who are neither on the
> >> release team nor maintaining a key package are not working?
> >
> >He is very obviously not suggesting that. He is just saying what he
> >said: the Release Team shouldn't be doing all the work to get the thing
> >out.
>
> And to relieve the release team they have decided to make re-entering
> testing a manual process. I only see one way that wouldn't falsify
> that assumption, and that way is bad.
The way I see to falsify is that the release team will only have to make
a *decision* about fixes done by the maintainer, instead of having to
fix themselves at the last minute some packages they don't even know
about. That's way less work.
Samuel
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