Hello Lars, * Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> [2005-06-28 10:18]: > The WNPP page[1] lists about a thousand requests for packages. Do these > RFP bugs serve any purpose these days? We have freshmeat, gnomefiles, > and other places where to look for new stuff to package. > > The average age of requests on that page about 200 days, median is over > 600. If no-one has reacted to a request in a year, what's the likelyhood > that they will do so ever? Having loads of RFP bugs doesn't really help > anyone and it makes the WNPP pages unnecessarily long. > > I would like to suggest that we at least close RFP bugs older than 365 > days. I couldn't think of an easy way to find numbers on how many RFP > bugs get retitled to ITP, so I won't suggest we stop using RFPs at all. > > Does anyone oppose the 365 day maximum age for RFP bugs? I talked about this a while ago on debian-devel. My idea was to drop the rfp's also itp's etc. after let's say a year. regards nico -- Nico Golde - JAB: nion@jabber.ccc.de | GPG: 0x73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org VIM has two modes - the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't -- encrypted mail preferred
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