On 20 September 2013 16:00, Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
Packaging often takes much longer than a couple of days, especially if the
packager is not experienced. And when the work is published somewhere, but
not yet uploaded, there is no general way to know if it's published and
where.
And how many inexperienced packagers will start by filing an ITP bug? Or indeed by searching for existing ITP bugs? More likely, the bug only gets filed when they've prepared a working package and Lintian is complaining about the lack of a line closing the ITP bug.
This is not a problem specific to Debian - people work on all sorts of projects, and post them all over the web. Yes, sometimes work gets duplicated, but the world does not end. For a project like Debian, you can sanely keep a registry of 'stuff people are working on', but if you're going to do that, at least make it easy to use.