Hello Andreas, > Its on my todo list. Unfortunately the build time takes some time and I > will not stress test the battery of my laptop. Reminding is fine in any > case. :-) Ahh that's fine and understandable :-). I assumed maybe you offloaded this on some build server. I am not too sure of the procedure, but with any task that has a maintainer hardware limitation, would debian provide environments or remote machines for a duration of time? I am somewhat working blindly with this package so it's good to know for the future instead of bugging you for a hundred builds :-). > I admit new queue can be stress test the patience of newcomers. To be > short: You can never know how long a package takes. Despite the name > is "queue" its not a FIFO procedure. Sometimes its helpful to give some > hints about priorities and why a package might be more important than > others. BTW, I even had send a mail to ftpmaster ranking your packages > in the category "Would motivate newcomer" which was below "needed for > bcbio" package. Seems that ranking was not helpful to proceed with the > list I gave. :-( It's more of just a curiosity factor, and sometimes educating eager upstream developers as I'm very patient. Surprisingly, there aren't that many listed as ftp masters for the amount of package awaiting upload. Would it be productive to work on another package alongside this FAST package? Kind regards, Shayan Doust On 04/09/2019 15:22, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Shayan, > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 01:53:30PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: >> Just a reminder whenever you get the chance to check the commits and the >> test suite as I know you're busy. > > Its on my todo list. Unfortunately the build time takes some time and I > will not stress test the battery of my laptop. Reminding is fine in any > case. :-) > >> Also, is it worth updating the other packages (upstream code for >> mmseqs2) now or is it better to wait until the package has finished >> pending upload and is in unstable. > > While ftpmaster can deal with more than one version in the new queue I > personally wait until a package is accepted. > >> Additionally, how long does it >> usually take before a package is put into unstable from being NEW? I've >> seen some packages as NEW for over a year although maybe these have been >> rejected? > > I admit new queue can be stress test the patience of newcomers. To be > short: You can never know how long a package takes. Despite the name > is "queue" its not a FIFO procedure. Sometimes its helpful to give some > hints about priorities and why a package might be more important than > others. BTW, I even had send a mail to ftpmaster ranking your packages > in the category "Would motivate newcomer" which was below "needed for > bcbio" package. Seems that ranking was not helpful to proceed with the > list I gave. :-( > > Kind regards > > Andreas. >
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