On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:28:39PM +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2005 03:03, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > As a DD, you can ls /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/new on merkel, daily > > > synced. Beware, there are 2826 files in there atm, so ls via grep > > > or something. > > And while we are on the subject, what's with NEW not being > > processed? Or are we again in the usual "I'll process any package > > that I feel like processing" situation? > Is it not just that there's too few hands to do the processing? > Recently our DPL assigned extra man-power to the "New Maintainers Front > Desk" and to the "Debian Account Managers" and with very good results, > for what I know. It would be great if he would assign more people to > process the NEW queue as well (in context hereto - do all current > members of ftp-masters process the NEW queue?). Increasing the rate at which new packages flow into unstable is NOT something that should be a priority when we're trying to get the RC bug count down in preparation of a release. Show me that there are enough people working on release-critical issues for sarge, which requires no imprimatur from the DPL, before you start throwing packages that have never even been tested by their maintainer at us faster than we already get them. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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