On Tuesday 03 February 2009 12:51:15 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > [C]ould freezes in testing be started sooner > after the previous release? I think so. There's really no reason that testing has to unfreeze at all, but it's how things are done right now. I think it would be nice if some automated system could, immediately after the Lenny->stable, Squeeze->testing switchover (1) find all packages that are "under consideration" (no bugs, been in unstable for X days) for a move unstable->testing and then monitor those package versions. Once those package versions are all either in testing or out of unstable, an automatic "soft freeze" goes into effect, the release team in notified and they can decide to start hardening the freeze OR thaw and restart the process from (1). Of course, the release team would remain completely in control of the process and be able to freeze/thaw at any time; the mails from the automated system would simply be advisory. [Hmm, this is something to try hacking on...] Such a automated system would serve as a guideline. It's basically: "all packages that appeared suitable for a future Debian release (at the time of the last release/when monitoring started) have made it in to testing or have since been determined unsuitable for a Debian release." Depending on the state of the release goals, that would seem to me a good time to freeze. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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