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Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue



Hello,

On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 12:03pm +02, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> +1 to clarifying the DELAYED queue section. Please also include an
> example dcut command on how to remove a package from the DELAYED queue
> if the maintainer does not want to have it.
>
> Personally I would much rather see a contribution being submitted to
> my packages as a Merge Request on Salsa, than as a NMU via DELAYED. If
> I am active, I can immediately engage in discussion about the change.
> If I am really busy I can just merge it without discussion, or comment
> that I am fine with it but don't have time to review deeper. If I am
> completely missing, I would be fine if somebody posted a MR and then
> after a few weeks went and merged it themselves and uploaded. This
> would still feel more collaborative than noticing a new package
> version as NMU in DELAYED. Does this resonate with others?

Yeah, me too (though I'd prefer a BTS bug to an MR, but it's the same).

The thing about DELAYED is that it's fire-and-forget for the contributor
actually doing the work, which is an advantage.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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