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