On 2022-04-29 at 08:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: > >> During the discussions about NEW on debian-devel in recent times, I >> had the idea that instead of the current mechanism of sending >> REJECT mails, Debian could switch to using the BTS for most >> feedback on NEW packages. >> >> This means that most discussion about NEW packages would become >> public, but of course the ftpmasters could opt to send private mail >> instead if in some cases if there were sensitive issues to be >> discussed. >> >> The ftpmasters could simply file severity serious bug reports >> against NEW packages that have issues blocking their entry into >> Debian. When there are minor issues noticed at the same time, then >> file bugs of a lower severity. Only when a NEW package has not had >> its serious bugs fixed in a long time would an eventual removal and >> REJECT mail happen, perhaps after a few months of zero action on >> the bug reports. > > Just to clarify: is this suggesting that packages from NEW would end > up in the archive even with serious bugs? If not, what's the point > of the "eventual removal" above? I'm not following you here... I parsed that not as "removal from the archive" but as "removal from the NEW queue", much as now happens (in some order and via some mechanism, perhaps a manual one) when a REJECT mail is sent. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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