On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:29:09PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be built > > from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer > > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". What > > follows is not intended as a gratuitous rant but is my experience of a > > packager: the long delays at the NEW queue, the variability of the decisions > > (which depend on who reviews the package), the unpredictability of when a > > source package goes to NEW (that is, when the list of binary packages changes), > > and the impossibility of using our archive as a guide of what is acceptable > > (since it contains things that would not be accepted anymore) are making it > > too difficult to support packages over years. > > If you have a NEW queue processing speed/style itch then scratch it. > The ftp team always seems in need and ready to welcome NEW volunteers. Indeed. This is what I did. I find this constant side-swiping of the ftpteam tiresome, Charles. We all get it by now, you don't care for the work we're doing, no need to bring it up daily. This ftpteam fetish is going a bit too far - you're starting to see the ftpteam in everything you look at now. We do always look for new members of the ftpteam, please refer to Ganneff's postings to all sorts of mailing lists on how to join the team. It's quite an important team, and more help is always welcome. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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