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Bug#855811: release.debian.org: release.d.o WWW should explicitly recommend against uploading to sid during the freeze



Hello Paul,

On Thu 07 Mar 2019 at 09:37PM +01, Paul Gevers wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:04:39 -0700 Sean Whitton
> <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> I'd like to suggest that this recommendation be stated explicitly on the
>> release team's website, to reduce the number of blocking uploads to
>> unstable made during the freeze.
>
> Is the current text good enough for this purpose?
> """
> We strongly prefer changes that can be done via unstable instead of
> testing-proposed-updates. If there are unrelated changes in unstable,
> you should consider reverting these instead of making an upload to
> testing-proposed-updates.
> """

No, I don't think so.  You have to think moderately hard to infer, "oh,
stop uploading to sid" from that text.  I would suggest appending
"I.e. only upload to sid changes for which you plan to request an unblock."

-- 
Sean Whitton

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