Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team
Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:56:30PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au> writes:
>>
>> > I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely
>> > process packages progressing through the NEW queue.
>> >
>> > <http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html> [1]
>> >
>> > I think you are an excellent example of people who are too busy for Debian.
>> >
>> > I must say that I am particularly impressed that you've managed to
>> > frustrate our users for over 1 year with the package 'xvidcap'.
>>
>> Guessing by the name alone I would say this is a patent issue like
>> mplayer and therefore a problem package that is not likely to get
>> resolved anytime soon.
>>
>> But that is just a guess.
>
> And it is an incorrect guess. xvidcap itself uses libraries already in
> Debian. But thanks for playing "guess the mind of the ftp-masters".
>
> Was it fun?
Yes and I guessed right it seems.
The ffmpeg library in debian is a problem case and probably should not
be in there. That issue hasn't been decided yet and till then anything
using it stays stuck.
And yes, that should be documented or at least communicated to the
maintainer.
>> For non problem cases the NEW queue was never as fast as now so
>> congratulation of improving the NEW queue so much already. Giving your
>> past month performance I'm sure the few remaining issues can be
>> resolved in time as well. Ignoring anything 2 weeks or newer I count
>> only 7 packages. This is great.
>
> Maybe you are a fan of being left in limbo, or like the perverbial
> Schrödinger's cat, but even a bad process can benefit from assurances.
>
> 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.
And would result in mplayer being uploaded again and again everytime
someone forgets it was there before.
Beter to have it stuck but documented why.
> Anand
MfG
Goswin
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