Re: New contributor experience
On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 04:39:30PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
We should just abolish and forbid RFPs, but in the current state
having old open RFPs works as designed IMO, saying that someone at
some time in the past wanted this software packaged for some reason.
I dislike that. An open RFP contains information: Somebody has looked at
an upstream package, thought it would make sense to have in Debian, but
decided that they dont have the resources or motivation to do the work
themselves for some reason. We should not throw away that information
consciously.
For ITPs, we should indeed close ones that didn't have activity for
some specific period of time, or turn them into RFPs, and that's
already implemented in the bartm's scripts, though I'm not sure if
it's currently enabled or not.
Please demote stale ITPs to RFPs, but don't throw them away. Reasons:
See above.
Greetings
Marc
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