Le 11/04/2018 à 10:54, Philip Hands a écrit : > Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 07:08:21AM +0000, Lumin wrote: >>> Briefly speaking, if a DD was told that "Thank you for your contribution >>> to Debian but please wait for at least 2 months so that your package >>> can enter the archive.", will the DD still be motivated working on NEW >>> packages??? Please convince me if you think that doesn't matter. >> But most DDs already know about this? >> >>> Let's have a look a this chart[2]. Obviously the NEW queue became >>> somewhat weirdly long since about a year ago. We can also move >>> to the middle part of this page[3] where we can estimate a median >>> number of time for a package to wait in the NEW queue. The median is >>> **2 month**. Things has been going in the BAD direction compared >>> to the past. >> There are 287 packages on that page. >> 154 of them have "node-" in the name. > > Of the packages that have been in the queue for more than 3 months, only > 3 are not node packages. > > Looking at the oldest item in the queue (node-mimelib, 7 months), I see > that the upstream README[1] was changed on Mar 11th to read: > > NB! This project is deprecated > > All users of this project are urged to find an alternative as it is not > maintained anymore. > > Obviously, this is nothing to do with whatever caused it to become stuck > in NEW, but it strikes me as symptomatic of the state of the node > ecosystem, which hardly makes things easy for those packaging node > packages, nor for the ftp-masters. > > If one excludes the node packages, the current state of NEW looks rather > good. It suggests[2] that the average wait for non-node packages is > about a fortnight.
Hello, Fortnight is the average of existing package in queue, not average time to enter in unstable (~ 1 month or more)
