Bug#625449: Permanent BSP patch
On 04/05/11 at 13:33 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:31:20PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (04/05/2011):
> > > The proposed wording doesn't imply this IMHO; I read it as "if you
> > > can't find an action from the maintainer on the buglog in the last 7
> > > days, you can 0-day NMU".
> > >
> > > What we want is more something along the lines of "If the bug is
> > > older than 7 days without any maintainer activity /at all/, you can
> > > 0-day NMU".
> > >
> > > I don't think we can expect maintainers to ping their RC bugs on a
> > > weekly basis, just to repeat "I'm working on a proper fix, it takes
> > > time, don't NMU please". Perhaps we need a "willfix" or
> > > "dont-nmu-please" tag…
> > >
> > > --
> > > OdyX
> >
> > reading Jakub's answer, I realized it could indeed be understood this
> > way. I'll be happily seconding any wording clarifying that.
> >
>
> Happy to take phrasing updates, but I would be keen to ensure that a
> maintainer can't just ack a bug, and then leave it for months. Perhaps
> something that means a maintainer needs to say 'I expect this to be done
> by $foo' and $foo + 1 week would be the deadline?
I think that if you want to change the NMU procedures described in
dev-ref, you should at least discuss the proposals in a similar forum
than the one where the current recommendations were discussed, i.e
debian-devel@ or debian-project@.
Lucas
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