Re: A FIFO DAM, was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64

[MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>]

On 2004-07-17 18:37:17 +0100 David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:26:28AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Is queue-jumping desirable? [...]
> Yes, it's definitely desirable.  For instance, a person maintaining an
> important library that a lot of other packages depend on, is more 
> urgent
> to pass through than someone maintaining an umptisecond tetris-clone,
> text-editor or whatever...

You cannot judge a person's future contribution solely by the package 
they maintain during NM. Although I am sure that people who adopt 
vital works and do it well are worth jumping in, I think if this is 
the source of the extreme weighting (and waiting!) that we see now, it 
will encourage "maintainer churn" with people adopting stuff just to 
get through NM and then RFA/orphaning it again.

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