On May 9, 2013 4:15 AM, "Jonathan Riddell" <<a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org">jr@jriddell.org</a>> wrote: > > Discussing ways to make the SRU process smoother with upstream KDE folks we wondered if uploads to -proposed could go straight into the archive then be approved by ~ubuntu-sru during the 7 days waiting period. If there's a bug which is causing lots of bugs reports upstreams are keen to get updates in ASAP and anything which delays it longer means they spend more time triaging bugs which they have already fixed. It would just remove one of the places this process can be blocked. What does tech board think? > > Jonathan As another data point the gnome-shell 3.6.3 SRU for 12.10 waited in the unapproved queue for over 2 months. If that kind of excessive wait is typical it will make us lose confidence in the SRU system and be force us to encourage our users to depend on PPAs if they want bugfixes. Thanks, Jeremy