Wouter Verhelst wrote:
That's not to say that a request to prioritize a package is to be ignored; however, the power of deciding which packages get built first should be with those that actually build the packages, rather than with those who want their packages to be built. The former are expected to be following the larger picture; the latter are not.
The latter, however, also know a good deal more about the particular details of the upload. It'd seem to at least make sense to use critical/medium/low as part of the sort criteria, for example before alphabetical. Maybe even ahead of standard/optional/extra.