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Re: PSA: low quality ITP/RFS submissions from @northeastern.edu people



On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 14:24 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> Hello.
> It looks like the phenomenon of obvious students mass-submitting open
> source changes, because they were requested to, has come to Debian in the
> form of ITP+RFS. While those changes are, in my experience, almost never
> worth the time spent reviewing, they are sometimes good. But there can be
> no good *one-time* ITP+RFS, and I don't think the assignment requires the
> students to actually maintain the packages in Debian. So I suggest people
> doing reviews to not spent extra time explaining why specifically packages
> like https://mentors.debian.net/package/broot/ or
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/stc/ are bad (but it's up to you, just
> be aware).
> Thanks.
> 

Morning Andrey,

Did not spot that, good catch.

If there is no intention to maintain the packages beyond getting them into
Debian as a project, I would feel whomever allocated them this task is being
very disrespectful to the project and its people.

I will work with these submitters, however it will be with a low priority and
many questions regards motivation and future plans for the submitted
package(s).

Again, thanks for the heads-up Andrey.

Regards

Phil

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