Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:56:09 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:46:36 +0100, Samuel Thibault > <sthiba...@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 <st...@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
