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Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team



Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> writes:
>
>> A simple assurance that your package will be rejected from the NEW queue
>> if no ftp-master approves it within 2 weeks would actually be a benefit.
>
> Why?
>
> It seems like, if that's the way that you want the world to work, you
> could already just pretend that this is the case.  If your package has
> gone for more than two weeks, it seems to me like you could decide to
> treat it in all respects as if it had been rejected and just go on with
> your life.  If it ends up getting accepted, you could orphan it, or decide
> to pick it up again.

When the ftp masters reject a package, they say why it has been
rejected as a rule.  So at least that part can't be substituted for in
this way.

Thomas



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