On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:59:24PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> I regularly see a package claimed while the packager already claimed
> others, and then semi-automatically unclaimed after two weeks. Moreover,
> the package is then claimed by another packager, which means the initial
> work (if any) was useless, and the security update was basically delayed
> for no reason (while it's time-sensitive).
I've seen this too though I have concluded (most?) often the situation
is unclear / involving slowly / etc, and thus the package has been claimed
for long. At least this is my impression from the cases where I asked
or looked deeper myself.
> Since I see this regularly, I wonder if we should enforce a harder rule
> (e.g. 2 at most), or find some other way to curb that trend.
I'd set that number to 3 or 4 and also (at first?) only make it a warning
in my weekly semi-automatic mails.
> Thoughts?
thanks for bringing this up! I'm curious what others think too.
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cheers,
Holger
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