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Re: Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch



Le Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:09:49AM +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On Wed, 04 May 2011 at 06:57:13 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > I still do not understand why pressure is given to answer in 7 days, which is
> > at most one full week-end, for non-urgent issues.
> 
> Rather than pressure to answer, I see this as more like "if you're sufficiently
> busy with something else that you didn't answer within 7 days, then a helpful
> DD who wants to fix RC bugs on your behalf isn't required to wait for you to
> not be busy". NMUs are meant to be assistance, not some sort of punishment.

My main concern is that most NMU workflows are not considering VCSes and
therefore not helpful when there is a race condition between the NMUer and the
maintainer.  If I have time later, I will open a specific discussion (taking
the comment of Lucas into account).

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Alsace, France


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