Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > But there are not very many bugs with patches. If I read
> > > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/> correctly, there are
> > > only 123 of those. Send more, send more. :)
> >
> > And you think patch number 124 will be NMUed any more than the 123
> > patches before that?
> >
> > We can't even find anyone to NMU the bugs with patches that are in the
> > BTS already so how would that help?
>
> If I count correctly[1], more than 410 bugs tagged patch were closed in
> the past month. This would not seem to mesh with your claim that we do
And how many patches are still left untouched by the maintainer for >1
year?
How many of those 410 bugs where younger than 3 month?
> not have enough developer time to deal with a mere 124 patches for
> release critical bugs. Given recent BSP activity, which always starts
> with easy stuff, like RC bugs with patches, if a RC bug has a patch that
> is over a month old, the patch is probably not very good.
I never sayed anything about RC bugs. RC bugs seem to get much more
attention because they are more visible and handled via BSP.
> Which is not to say that we don't have far too many bugs in the BTS
> tagged patch and not fixed. We have over two thousand of them, excluding
> NMU patches.
Those are the once I'm talking about. Thats nearly 3 patches per DD.
> But my experience as a maintainer and patch submitter is that good
> patches are 95% likely to be eventually applied, and that they're 50%
> likely to be applied within a month. My experience is also that 10% of
> bugs tagged patch do not contain a patch, and >30% of patches are not
> good patches. One of the most important jobs of a package maintainer is
> filtering out bad ideas and bad patches.
But even the filtering out is not done, cause then the patch should be
rejected or taged won't fix or commented on.
Just as with the NM queue its the hanging in limbo thats most anoying.
MfG
Goswin
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