Re: gtk-gnutella
* Mike Dornberger (Mike.Dornberger@gmx.de) [051204 22:09]:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 07:11:08PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > to decide what goes in and what not, but currently it seems it is only
> > Andi and me inspecting the packages. Sure we have the last word, as we
> > need to accept it on the ftp-server, but we only humans and might make
> > mistakes. Speak with us, only that gives us the possibility to get a
> > clue what our users whould like to have on volatile.
> The last sentence seems a bit contradictorily to me. Some messages back, the
> answer to a mail with "I'd like to see package foo in volatile" was
> something like "Only the maintainer of foo might ask for inclusion", IIRC
> there was even something like "Don't file wishlist bugs against bar asking
> for inclusion into volatile". I got the impression, the users had to
> "secretly convince" the maintainer to upload to volatile.
Well, the reason why we need the maintainer's upload is:
- bug reports reported via the debian BTS go to the maintainer,
- this makes sure (well, at least it makes our chances pretty ok :) that
upgrading to the next stable release works well
> Maybe it is a good idea to put some sentences about user wishes to the
> volatile website. Is a non-maintainer-initiated discussion desired here, a
> non-DD-initiated one also?
We don't mind about formal status in reviews, but rather about good
reasons.
Thanks for all the good suggestions to update the website.
Cheers,
Andi
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