Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 01:52PM +01, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP:
>
>  * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same
>    package
>  * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere
>
> If people post an ITP and upload iummediately, then I don't think that
> helps on either count.

Regarding the first point, in previous discussions others have said that
they don't look at NEW but do look at ITPs, so they still want it posted
for that reason.

> If the only reason for the ITP is to make lintian quiet then I think
> that's a total waste of time - it's following a guideline blindly
> without understanding the reason for it.

Definitely.

-- 
Sean Whitton