Re: DM application for Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> writes:
> I'm aware that this is how it should be, but many situations happen when
> you're just out of time or you forgot to reply to this specific bug
> or. That just happens. It is great that people like Lucas remind you of
> it and even attach a complete fix. So far so good.
>
> My point here is this: why use a DELAYED/2 queue when a DELAYED/10
> upload suffices just as well to reach the goal, but allows the "waken
> up" maintainer to incorporate it in their own upload beforehand if they
> so wish? Seems to make all happy.
Well, I'd really like to get people out of the habit of thinking that NMUs
are something horrible. DELAYED/2 gets a fix out to the users of unstable
faster, and then the maintainer can make another upload later.
Of course, I'm on LowThresholdNMU. :)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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