2008/12/3 Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We currently have a long reviewing process before packages get into the > archive. But once they are in, maintainers are free to do whatever they > want with their packages, without any review happening. > > I'm not advocating that we just stop doing reviews. But IMHO, NEW > processing should be about the legal problems, not about the random > lintian warning/errors, and the various other packaging malpractices. > What we should do instead is encourage reviews (either on mentors, or > inside teams), because that's also a much more scalable solution.
+1 > Of course, if ftpmasters come across random problems in the package > while reviewing legal stuff and mention that to the maintainer, it's > great. But having other things checked by ftpmasters just reduces their > bandwidth and causes longer queues. I'm very much along this lines of thought to. Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]