Re: Notable userbase requirement
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:10:11PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> The Basic Rules [1] includes:
>
> * Please only upload package with a noteable userbase.
> User request for the package may be an indicator.
>
> How strict should this rules be interpreted?
>
> As discussed on the debian-gis@ list [2] I'd like to maintain some GIS
> packages in jessie-backports. Among these packages are prepair [3],
> pprepair [4] & python-osmapi [5] which due to them being new in stretch
> still have a very low popcon score.
>
> Would this be blocker for backports according to the Basic Rules?
It sounds like you've discussed it within the GIS community and there
is support/interest in the backport there; this seems like more than
enough reason to go ahead.
I might be tempted to rewrite the requirement to say 'with an
appreciable (or potential) userbase'.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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