also sprach Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [2005.03.04.2118 +0100]: > I think the "communication issues" are just a stand in for > complaints of the underlying cause. If they weren't, I think the > new.html page should be more of a solution ... not many people knew about it until recently. And there has not been a flame war since it became widely public. > The communication isn't perfect, but I don't think making it > perfect would actually be a significant improvement. It would be an improvement on psychological level to some of the developers, which I think should not be underestimated. > No, this is a policy problem. Communication is easy: hit "M" for > manual reject, write a note, and it's all done. Or hit "P" for > prod to write a note to the maintainer with the possibility of > accepting the package anyway, or leaving it in the queue for later > reconsideration. The issue for packages like mplayer and hot-babe > is that it's not clear that they can be accepted, but it's also > not clear that they should be rejected. And until one or the other > becomes clear, they're left in the queue. Would it be conceivable to have e.g. a page per package in NEW where links and notes and comments can be collected, for everyone to be able to see? Sort of like the bug tracking system? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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