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 -- Donations... Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/kathenas -- "I play the game for the game’s own sake" Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans -- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Matrix: #kathenas:matrix.org Website: https://kathenas.org Wiki: https://wiki.kathenas.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/kathenasorg/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kathenasorg --
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