Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)
On 2008-05-30, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Le Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:45:57AM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit :
>>
>> Yes, communication is good. We have several media for it, the two most
>> important ones being mailing lists and the BTS (IMO). This DEP proposes
>> to use the BTS for communication about NMUs. It was that way already
>> AFAIK, although some people seem to think private mail was needed as
>> well. To avoid any confusion, we should make it explicit in any case.
>> If many people think private mail is needed before uploading to DELAYED,
>> please speak up and we'll require that. To me, that would pretty much
>> disable all usability of DELAYED, but that may be just me...
>
> Hi Bas, Richard, Lucas,
>
> the DEP says:
>
> - must use BTS,
> - usage of DELAYED is recommended.
>
> This means that people can opt out using DELAYED, but must post something
> in the BTS. I think that the problem is not whether the communication is
> public in the BTS or private, it is that "something the BTS" does not
> imply communication. One can send a patch to the BTS and upload a NMU
> without ever asking if it is welcome. Therefore I would much prefer that
> the DEP clarifies this by writing that the use of DELAYED is mandatory
> if the NMUer does not ask if the upload is welcome.
Yeah. let us delay bugfixes from reaching the users as long as
possible.
/Sune
(anyone who replies to this mail needs to fix at least 1 rc bug before
doing so)
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