On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:05:26PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:51:52PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > <details of tasksel-related checking> > > Thanks for this, much appreciated. I've been pondering too on this > issue, wondering if we could/should give more warning to (all) qDDs > about upcoming removals. Would it be useful / possible to have a > weekly summary mailed to debian-devel listing packages that are marked > for possible removal, giving (maybe) 2 weeks notice? That way > maintainers and DDs get more warning about removals of packages that > they care about, and a countdown. It *might* push maintainers a little > more to get fixes uploaded. There's a little naming-and-shaming here, > which could make the difference. Well, the thing is, we have quite a clear policy, which is to remove (not in period of a freeze of course) packages that are: * leaf packages ; * RC buggy ; * for more than 20 days ; * with absolutely no movement from the maintainer. With that anyone interested in providing such a list can do it. If we also add a 15 days warning, then the maintainer should get a warning at day 5, which is overkill. And packages where the maintainer didn't manage to answer to an RC bug report in 20 days is a package where it's really unlikely to see this evolve with what you ask, because they won't read it more. Lucas already sends montly mails about RC bugs. I don't think it change things for a minute. Like I said numerous time when we discussed this issue, I prefer to be there and ready to help people that fixed a package make it enter back into testing if the migration isn't trivial, with all the hints that are needed. Note that less than a week after having been removed, mplayer and lilo have been fixed. It's fun to see how easy it is to fix "unsolvable" bugs with the proper incentive. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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