Adding a hook to ubuntu-drivers GUI for a driver PPA

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:46:12PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Jorge O. Castro [2015-08-19 16:31 -0400]:
> > I'll let Alberto answer here, I think the biggest issue is the time it
> > takes to get it into distro.

> What are you concerned about in particular? The act of uploading
> obviously doesn't make a difference; is it slow SRU queue processing?
> Or the 7 days maturing period? The latter is at least an excellent
> idea as after a new version lands in the distro (or PPA) once, you
> have a commitment to not break existing users; so they should be
> exposed to some field testing before releasing.

I would note that the seven-day waiting period exists as an imperfect proxy
for exploratory regression testing, because we have no guaranteed
committment from anyone to test the package after it's uploaded.  The 7-day
period is thus completely arbitrary, and the SRU team should consider
waiving it in any case where we have assurance that sufficiently-broad
testing has happened by some other means.

Of course, waiving the 7-day waiting period is different than committing to
release the SRUs on a more frequent schedule.

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