On 07/10/2015 12:30 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
I would love to be able to turn a tz release around in a week. That is not currently possible.
It is currently possible to do it in far less time than a week, for other operating systems. For example, the 2014c release was turned around in about two hours by Debian, and in about three hours by Ubuntu; see <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-May/020907.html>. This wasn't a complete new OS release: it was merely a patch, but that's good enough to solve the problem. Two hours is pretty fast, and we can't expect redistributors to be that fast every time; even Debian doesn't do that. But it should be eminently doable to release an automatically-installable patch within a week. A three-month delay is waaayyy too long.