Re: Advocacy for Chen Baozi
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Chen Baozi <baozich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:33, Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wookey,
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Wookey via nm <wookey@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I advocate Chen Baozi to become Debian Developer, uploading.
>>> Advocacy text:
>> [...]
>>> He has uploaded a pile of packages to debian-mentors for checking/bug filing/NMUing, which I am working through, but would like him to be able to do himself in due course.
>>
>> I've noticed that there are a few small but glaring issues with the
>> NMUs for which Chen has uploaded to mentors.d.n / filed RFS bugs for
>> sponsorship-requests, e.g. wrong version numbers ("+cfg"?) which
>> aren't suitable for NMUs, targeting "unreleased" instead of unstable,
>> not closing relevant bug reports in d/changelog, etc., which he hasn't
>> addressed when others pointed them out on his RFS bug reports (e.g.
>> #750419). Hopefully you or his AM will take a bit of time to cover the
>> relevant sections in devref to make sure he's aware of those issues.
>> :)
>
> Thanks for pointing out the issues.
>
> In fact, those 'RFS bugs’ were filed at the very beginning when I was
> fixing FTBFS bugs for arm64. The wrong version numbers (“+cfg”) were added
> by following the debian-ports' 'Upload Policy’
> (http://www.ports.debian.org/archive). The ‘unreleased’ archive is a
> temporary archive to help debian arm64 ports
> (http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/dists/unreleased/). I uploaded those
> packages to mentors.debian.net so that Wookey could get them, check
> their qualities and finally do the upload (to ‘unreleased’ of debian-ports),
> since I don’t have right to do so. I filed the RFS bugs by trying to follow
> a more formal way to let Wookey know that the packages were uploaded and
> where they locates. However, it turns out that ‘debian ports upload policy’
> is slightly different, and I realised that those RFS reports are actually
> not suitable for our current porting work (In fact, I also realised that ‘RFS’
> should be made when someone cannot find a sponsor and I’ve already got one).
>
> Yes, I think I need to cancel all my ‘RFS’ to avoid further misunderstanding
> on them.
Ah, thanks for the clarification; I was unaware that debian-ports has
different policies in place. And yes, cancelling those RFS bug reports
would be ideal, and I see that you've done that already.
Regards,
Vincent
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