Le mardi 24 décembre 2019 à 09:51:04-0600, John Goerzen a écrit : > Hi, > > I mean this post as a challenge, but not as blame. I know many teams do > hard work that can be thankless, and my intent is not to blame them, but > to challenge us as a project to question our processes and attitudes. > > Here's what I mean: > > On October 12, I uploaded glktermw, a new package. On October 19, I > uploaded nncp, also a new package. I have heard nothing at all about > either of them since, they remain in the NEW queue but even inquiries on > this have yielded nothing. In that time, NNCP has had several updates > and I packaged one of them, but finally I stopped bothering; I mean, if > it's just going to sit in NEW -- and perhaps even reduce the importance > of processing it (the NEW page now shows its age at 3 weeks, which is > the age of the second upload, not the original one) -- why should I? > > Strangely, I also uploaded a package on October 12, glulxe. It was > accepted a month later, despite depending on glktermw, which was and is > still in NEW. > > This situation makes me wonder: is it worth it putting in the effort to > package things up for Debian? At the moment, it seems the answer is no. NEW is processed by hand by the FTP Team. The FTP Team is, as any other part of the project, constituted of volunteers who do the job on their free time. Maybe you should keep that in mind. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue GPG: 9AE0 4D98 6400 E3B6 7528 F493 0D44 2664 1949 74E2 It's far easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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