Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 11:08:28 Stefano Zacchiroli, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > > Most of the time this is the case. But, if you upload a large, complex > > > package, that might get passed by for a while so that several small, > > > easy packages might be processed in the same time. > > > > Obviously this is causing starvation. > > No, it is not (on the assumption that we have simultaneous people > processing NEW which, AFAIK, is the case).
My personal experience is not consistent with this. I have several very small ocaml packages waiting in NEW for several weeks now. I am upstream on these packages, and, honnestly, it takes few minutes to check them (only 3 files of code in tarball). On the other hand, I have been trying to move to the new libgavl for some times. Although I did make mistake in the copyright file, each round through NEW took me almost 2 months, which means that the transition is on-going since almost october or november. I have refrained myself from complaining so far, since it is usually not constructive, but until last week, all my debian-related activities were stuck in NEW. (Un)fortunately, gmerlin was rejected last week since I missed some licence headers in the doc/ so I can now fix this and wait again for two months. I would strongly advertise a public collaborative license and copyright check. That is the kind of work that we could all do and report in the NEW queue. Of course, the work that ftp-masters do is very important, in particular for checking unsual licence, or checking archive consistency, so thay should have the last word. However, if like 3 DDs claim they have reviewed the package's license and that eveythying is like GPL, along with a subjective views on the complexity of the package's check, then the work should be much more faster afterward. Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
