* Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>, 2014-09-03, 01:36:
Carl, it doesn't particularly matter whether a package in NEW is at the front, middle, or end of the queue, because ftpmasters don't review every package in NEW in the order that it got into the queue; it's most certainly not a FIFO queue.
Indeed! https://lists.debian.org/87bpmu2p98.fsf@gkar.ganneff.de -- Jakub Wilk