On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Tim Retout wrote: > On 15 June 2010 21:59, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > > Encouraging maintainers to invest their time in QA > > makes more sense than adding more NEW packages to become the QA > > workload of the future. Directing everyone at NEW is counter-productive > > and encourages more horrible first-time packages. > > I agree entirely with this goal - I'm not yet certain that allowing > unrestricted QA uploads by DMs will solve that problem, although I > wouldn't be against testing it out. > > For starters, it could only really be allowed for DMs, not any old > packager, I think. So would this produce results among "normal" > mentees? > > My understanding was that some DMs are interested only in the packages > they already maintain, otherwise they would be in the NM queue - so > this subset would be less likely to bother with orphaned packages, > surely? As for the others... if the act of allowing unrestricted QA > uploads would spur them to make lots of fixes, why do we not see DDs > doing this all the time? >
There also some package maintainers such as I am, who simply do not have the time to go through the NM queue. And no, I won't even think about to adapt orphan packages, I already don't get packages I'm interested in through mentors. Fortunately, Martin Pitt now wants to help me to upload unionfs-fuse. I was already close to send a mail to this list requesting to remove this package from Debian. IMHO, it is wrong to list me as "Maintainer", if it impossible to maintain it... Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006170342.20269.bernd.schub...@fastmail.fm
