Re: [Debian account] I request your attention

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Michael Piefel <piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> I do not like the tone Eray's mail was written in, I do not like the
> accusations I find in it. But do you really think he's so unreasonable
> when he gets impatient?

I don't think Eray is being unreasonable.  I do not think it is
unreasonable that someone who has been waiting for DAM approval for
227 days (~57 times the mode) should ask for a status update.

This is not the first time that accusations have been made about the
DAM approval process[1].  In fact, discussions about DAM approval crop
up repeatedly[2].  At one time, Eray expressed his belief that these
accusations were false.[3]

Eray may not mention emailing the frontdesk (and it doesn't appear to
be publically archived, so we can't check) but he's emailed
newmaint-discuss[4] to no avail.

Yes, Debian developers are all volunteers, and you can't demand that
they do anything.  But it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect a status
update within 32 weeks, even from volunteers.  Especially when the
volunteers have been processing other people.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0102/msg00735.html

[2]  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0101/msg01656.html

[3]  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0101/msg01727.html

[4]  http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint-discuss-0103/msg00123.html

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