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Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64



* Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> [2004-07-16 10:42]:
> Is it your opinion that James and Ryan are doing a wonderful job as
> ftpmasters, and that you wouldn't change anything?

I think ftpmaster as a whole is doing a fairly good job.  NEW
processing is certainly done faster now than a year or two ago and
feedback is usually given fairly quickly.  (Although I'm sure people
will respond to this mail complaining about their package being stuck
in NEW; however, the situation has definitely improved and works well
for most packages).

As to the AMD64 situation: I've always encouraged people to do good
technical work and not wait for others to give them a "go".  I think
the AMD64 people have done an amazing amount of work in a relatively
short period of time.  Even though I disagree with some technical
decision that were made (and I fear they might bite us in the future),
I personally think their work should be awarded by putting the port in
the archive.  Anyway, this is my personal opinion and the whole idea
of delegation is that you don't make all decisions yourself.  So, as
to the policy for the new architectures, I think this policy is really
important as there are a number of pending architectures.  I
personally think we don't have to wait for that policy for AMD64 since
most points are not an issue there anyway (but see above).  As to the
technical questions ftpmaster wants to raise, I'm quite disappointed
that they have not been posted yet because I was promised at DebConf
that it would happen soon.  I've now asked someone I trust to find out
what these issues are exactly so hopefully progress will be made on
that soon.  I've also seen drafts of the new architecture policy and
the common architecture (mirror) policy and they are proceeding pretty
well.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
leader@debian.org



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