Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Gianfranco Costamagna writes ("Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)"):
> The months before a stable release pose a really high pressure on
> ftpmasters workload,

This is so frustrating!  I have already explained why this is
completely irrelevant.

Yes, there is additional pressure on the NEW queue right now.
But NEW processing is (heroically) done entirely by Thorsten.
This dispute does not involve Thorsten.

So there is *zero impact* on NEW if we do this now.

> nobody wants to break dak when the freeze is approaching

The way we propose to install the key, in the Task Delegation,
is very very simple.  It may not even need any code changes.

Now - when no other changes are being made to dak, and the actual
making of the release is still months away - is *exactly* the right
time to do this.


Let me put it like this:

I want to give a talk at Debconf in Brest about tag2upload.

I don't want to have to spend any of that talk explaining why it still
isn't deployed yet.

Ian.

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