Why is the fedora.us (Fedora Extras) repository growing so slowly??

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Warren Togami wrote:

> https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=520
> For example on more than two occasions I have mentioned powernowd, which 
> I believe would be extremely beneficial to any laptop owner.  When used 
> with the 2.6 kernel cpufreq_userspace interface, it allows dynamic CPU 
> speed adjustment based upon current load.  It has been tested to work 
> well with Athlon and VIA processors, and should theoretically work fine 
> with Intel SpeedStep too if cpufreq works with your laptop.
> 
> Packages will sit forever in fedora.us QA if nobody bothers to even 
> comment on them.  And it is not useful to only say "It builds and runs 
> fine for me."  as this says nothing about spec file correctness and the 
> security of the included sources.  People that want to seriously 
> contribute to package development and QA must show that they actively 
> follow each point of the http://www.fedora.us/wiki/QAChecklist and 
> consistently give good advice more than several times in order to build 
> trust.

*shrug* If no one comments, no one cares, and then presumably there's not
that much demand for that package.

I think it'd be better to put efforts towards making it easier to do QA (ie, 
things like a CVS tree of specs and patches), rather than removing steps 
from QA.

later,
chris