Re: Notable userbase requirement
On 05/08/2015 12:39 AM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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'.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll go ahead a prepare the backports for these
packages too.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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