Hello Mattia, Thanks for your reply. On Wed, Jan 03 2018, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> ISTM that requiring maintainers to check packages against the >> upgrading checklist before they can upload other improvements is an >> example of requiring prerequisite work of volunteers that is not >> needed for co-ordinating with other volunteers. So we should not >> require it. > > Agree, we should not require it. But I believe we should definitely > (more or less strongly) recommend it. This is quite tricky. I think that strongly recommending that someone do some additional work is likely to have the same negative effect as requiring them to do it. This was a central message of Enrico's talk. Maybe I better word is "encourage".. -- Sean Whitton
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