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Re: RFS or not - Was: Re: mentors review subject



On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 05:53 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 04:37:18AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 05:20 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > > There are corner cases (e.g sponsoree has already a sponsor) where an
> > > RFS is not needed, but as the rfs-howto says, generally it should be
> > > done as documented, and that is using RFS bugs.
> > > 
> > > Have you experience cases where people do not file RFS bugs but should
> > > have? (/me only looking for RFS bugs, so I don't have that data.)
> > > 
> > 
> > Morning Tobias,
> > 
> > I have experienced such cases, but usually get people to file an RFS
> > eventually. This takes time that I would prefer to be using for other things.
> > 
> > I understand the documentation as you do, but needed wisdom to now know to be
> > able to advocate to mentors submitters that filing an RFS and add also the
> > fact that it is also likely to be looked at quicker.
> > 
> > No RFS because of having a sponsor. These can languish on mentors with no
> > ongoing information being present or added. Could an RFS also be required for
> > this case for clarity and we then know the supposed sponsor is aware, taken
> > ownership and marked as pending on bts?
> 
> No, I don't think that we should *require* an RFS.
> 
> Possibly the language on mentors.d.n could be tweaked to indicate that
> a RFS it is even more clear that the sponsoree *wants* a RFS, or mentors
> tweaked that it will print a warning if "needs sponsor: yes" is ticked.
> 
> (A a side note, in Debian there are usually multiple ways to archive something,
> as there are many workflows. It is uncommon in Debian to exactly say that you
> have to follow exactly one procedure, so e.g requiring a RFS would be a odd
> thing to do)
> 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Phil
> > 

Hi Tobias,

Tweaking the language maybe a good idea.

I know and understand Debian has many workflows and we do ask for one
specific method of people.

Regards

Phil

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