Dear Karan,
How about, package maintainers will test that their package works correctly on all architectures and platforms their package supports, they will then submit the SRPM to enter in the next "scheduled" build cycle, if it builds clean they should hear nothing, but if it fails they should get the error report emailed back to them, they will then need to fix and re-submit for the next build cycle. The CentOS team will discard any new SRPMs that fail to build.
This sort of a thing is easy, let me also plumb in a few more bits : people get 'version control' access, and can then submit and track packages in there, tag'g for builds - and results being immediately visible. With an automated just-build repo's that can be ( should be ? ) public. Allowing people to do whatever and how many ever builds they fancy before actually moving their packages ( and they should be able to do this on their own - with an automated process ) into the testing repo's on dev.centos.org (1)
That sounds very nice...
A policy can then be drafted on how and what moves from testing to stable. Where stable could be either Extras/ Contrib/ or Plus/.
This puts the pressure on the maintainer to make sure it is thoroughly tested for all supported architectures and releases that they support.
Sure, that works - however we can all share the pain a bit. The tricky situation however is going to be working out what is a workable packaging standard we could / would adopt. No reason why we cant go with the Fedora churnout. If that works for everyone ?
.. and would work at least for me ;)
Best Regards Marcus