Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-26 Thread Lukas Rose
I've noticed more issues than usual in the last few weeks as well. Including one big issue that prevented my whole system from booting (just a black screen with flashing cursor, not even a command prompt let alone my lightdm login screen). I didn't file bug reports for those, since I am very bus

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-26 Thread Florian Pritz via arch-general
On 26.07.2016 03:23, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote: > 1. What exactly can these users do? I assume simply sign-off as 'works for me' > 2. Is there any hard deadline? > 3. (related to above) is there any policy as to what specifically a > user should have tested before signing off? Starting at le

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
As Florian just sent out the arch-dev-public email on this topic (and I can't reply there), I have a couple of questions. 1. What exactly can these users do? I assume simply sign-off as 'works for me' 2. Is there any hard deadline? 3. (related to above) is there any policy as to what specifically

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-05 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On Sat, 2016-07-02 at 09:16 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > This sounds like the Fedora policy where packages have to surpass a > certain karma level to move into the main repositories.  I'm not sure > who gets to vote for that though. > > A    I would suggest allowing any Arch user vote yay or nay

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-30 Thread Jens Adam
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:51:17 +0200 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public : > Maybe we should look into finding some people that want to help test > stuff and give them permissions to sign off on packages? +1 Sign me up, running [testing] for a decade now anyway, on x86_64 and i686. --byte pgpOmTnKTxl

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-29 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:51:17 +0200 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > As pointed out on arch-general (not by me) this makes the whole > signoff process useless. Maybe we should look into finding some > people that want to help test stuff and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-29 Thread Ismael Bouya
Hey there, At some point I started to receive those "signoff" message on one of the list I'm subscribed to. I searched on the wiki what that meant, but with no result. I see that on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories you mention in one sentence what it is, but sorry it's not

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-29 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 07:36:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Excepted of issues that happen, if upstream decides to make a change of > course, as e.g. gtk or qt did, I couldn't notice more issues as usual. Same here, no more issues than usual, and I even run a bastard version of Arch with my ow

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:28:10 -0700, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote: >I have personally experienced several breakages in the past several >months--more than usual. A few were big enough that simply running >'foo - --version' should have revealed a problem (i.e. linking >problems). A signoff p

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-28 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I am replying to arch-general because arch-dev-public is closed to most users. On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:09:41 -1000 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Dear all, > > For a while now packages in [testing] have gotten little to no > signoffs and I've been moving m