On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Hello list, Hello! > > as sponsor I realy welcome the decission and changes to handle > sponsoring requests about our bugtracker, but there are still two > questions/disadvantages from my side: > > a) How should we handle requests, where the maintainer *may* be MIA? > Just for an example #658114 - a realy simple question is unanswered for > about 6 months! IMHO, let the mentors-reaper-bot kill the package from mentors after a few months, and then poke the bug as incomplete / moreinfo, and then close the bug after $TIME > IMO they should be pinged one more time, maybe they have overseen the > response, but if I want to see a package in Debian, I would track it, so > I also would see such "maintainers" as possible MIA candidates just > after their first uploads. So on they may be not qualified to maintain > packages/bugs within a distribution. Here here! > > b) Should we assume that the uploader is aware about freeze and realy > delay typical "new upstream release" uploads to unstable? IMO I do not > think so. The process is a bit more complicated but it is still possible > to update testing packages without unstable upoads. Yeah, but it's a major PITA and involves a lot more work (and sometimes, lost history if it's updated out of sync with unstable) > Surely it is not the cleanest way but sponsorship requests should be > processed :) Sure, but might as well throw them up in exp. I mean, it's easy, and fun for the whole family :) > > > Personaly I would not sponsor packages in the a) case, so on I think > they should be closed and some more active and interested mentor could > do this job. +1. > > b) is controverse when testing is freezed, but the number of requests > will just grow and grow! Maybe also some warning to the uploader like > "we are frozen, please only upload important bugfixes to sid if > required, if not please use experimental" Yeah, mentors has this warning, where else would you suggest putting it to make sure people, well, read it? :) > > -- > /* > Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, > Patrick Matthäi > GNU/Linux Debian Developer > > Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ > E-Mail: pmatthaei@debian.org > patrick@linux-dev.org > */ > -Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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