How long does it usually take to get a review for a new package?

[Kirill638849776]

Hello everyone! 👋

I submitted my first package PR (#424631 - Kirill638849776.CatAI) about 4 days ago. All checks have passed, CLA is signed, and the package works correctly locally. It was assigned to Stephen Gillie (@stephengillie), but there has been no review yet.

I completely understand that maintainers are busy, and I don't want to be pushy. However, I wanted to ask:

1. What is the average review time for new packages in winget-pkgs?
2. Is there anything I can do to help speed up the process?
3. The PR has a Validation-Executable-Error label, but it seems like a warning rather than a critical issue. Should I be worried about it?

I just want to make sure I'm following the process correctly and not missing anything on my side.

Thank you for your hard work maintaining this repository! 🙏

P.S. Here's my PR for reference: #424631

[Imre Eilertsen (DandelionSprout)]

1. I'm not sure anymore, since in light of Time to address the elephant in the room: There are too few users with PR merging rights who merge PRs. #333858, I personally perceive it as having become a "Lord of the Flies" situation that even my most negative estimates seem to have it take longer than. When I last kept track, the average was 2 weeks if the PR passed without problems on the very first try, and 5½ weeks if it received a red or yellow label at any point.
2. Looking into the PR: Yes, since making the manifest more detailed is always good in general. Add tags to the locale YAML file, make the ShortDescription longer, add PackageUrl: https://github.com/Kirill638849776/catai to the locale YAML, and (since it seems to meet all of the following checkboxes) cross off all 5 checkboxes in "Manifest Checklist", are the ones that come to mind.
3. Checking the log at https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/artifacts/WinGetSvc-Validation-424631-1-artifacts.zip:

(...)
Exception during executable launch operation System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (An error occurred trying to start process 'C:\Program Files\CatAI\catai_beta.exe' with working directory 'D:\TOOLS'. The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.)
 ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (216): An error occurred trying to start process 'C:\Program Files\CatAI\catai_beta.exe' with working directory 'D:\TOOLS'. The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.
(...)

I think it's a critical issue. Change the Architecture in the installer YAML from x86 to x64 and see if that helps.

[Mark Embling (markembling)]

I don't submit many pull requests but my previous one was in the region of 2 and a half weeks and my current one is still waiting after exactly 2 weeks so far. So based on my very limited experience, I guess at least 2 to 3 weeks.

The thread which Imre Eilertsen (@DandelionSprout) linked above definitely seems to imply this is a known pain point right now.

However some things seem to get through in literally a handful of days. I'm not clear where the difference comes from - whether there's any kind of reputational system at play or whether frequent contributors get a quicker response.