Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

[Scott Kitterman]

On August 28, 2022 8:58:24 PM UTC, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> 
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 07:45AM +02, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
>>
>> Am Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 09:53:40AM -0400 schrieb M. Zhou:
>>> In my fuzzy memory, the last discussion on NEW queue improvement
>>> involves the disadvantages by allowing SOVERSION bump to directly
>>> pass the NEW queue. I'm not going to trace back, because I know
>>> this will not be implemented unless someone proposes a GR.
>>
>> I'm considering this once beeing back from vac.  However, the problem in
>> such a GR is that even if there is an outcome for the voting that sais
>> SOVERSION bumps should pass new we need some code that implements this.
>> So we also need someone to volunteer for this.
>
>I think we still want the binary package namespace checking?
>
>I.e., a GR just saying "ftpteam should not do a full licensing/copyright
>check for packages in binNEW".
>
>Then no software changes are required.
>
I think that a GR to prohibit developers from looking for bugs is at least in 
principle inconsistent with not hiding problems.

Scott K