Hello, On Sat 04 Apr 2020 at 08:17PM +02, Niels Thykier wrote: > [explanation] > > Therefore, I would like us to acknowledge the fact that technical debt > is doing harm in that it has a cost for our contributors. But at the > same time, I know it is hard to compare objectively to the cost of the > alternatives (such "janitorial uploads to fix technical debts" or > "removals"). If it was easy, we would probably have computed the > optimal trade-off and solved this very old issue long ago. :) Thank you for the explanation. I agree that we should acknowledge this cost. It seems though that we have to take it case-by-case, and think about how a particular way of doing things is causing problems for a particular attempt to improve things, rather than having a blanket attitude to all packages that haven't been uploaded for a while. -- Sean Whitton
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