On Wed, Sep 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

Well, in our case I'll take commit = package upload.

> Yes, but you can't commit changes to someone else's package, can you?

Yes, you can on exceptional circumstances (critical bugs), it's called a
NMU (Non-Maintainer Upload).

> And they don't roll out commits immediately, there's a release process?

Every packages goes in the unstable distribution, and then the release
process takes 2 years, so it's not a valid model to copy. ;-)

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Julien Danjou