Hi Shayan, On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 03:40:36PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: > > Its on my todo list. Unfortunately the build time takes some time and I > > will not stress test the battery of my laptop. Reminding is fine in any > > case. :-) > > Ahh that's fine and understandable :-). I assumed maybe you offloaded > this on some build server. I am not too sure of the procedure, but with > any task that has a maintainer hardware limitation, would debian provide > environments or remote machines for a duration of time? I am somewhat > working blindly with this package so it's good to know for the future > instead of bugging you for a hundred builds :-).
I could use remote hardware but in 98% my laptop is fine. In those rare cases I use my desktop as fallback. Remembering how these remote servers might work takes more time for me. > > I admit new queue can be stress test the patience of newcomers. To be > > short: You can never know how long a package takes. Despite the name > > is "queue" its not a FIFO procedure. Sometimes its helpful to give some > > hints about priorities and why a package might be more important than > > others. BTW, I even had send a mail to ftpmaster ranking your packages > > in the category "Would motivate newcomer" which was below "needed for > > bcbio" package. Seems that ranking was not helpful to proceed with the > > list I gave. :-( > > It's more of just a curiosity factor, and sometimes educating eager > upstream developers as I'm very patient. Surprisingly, there aren't that > many listed as ftp masters for the amount of package awaiting upload. Yes, its also a person-power bottleneck. > Would it be productive to work on another package alongside this FAST > package? If you are just bored by waiting, yes, why not? Or check the list of bugs under https://bugs.debian.org/[email protected] Currently there are lots of those due to gcc migration and even more due to Python2 removal. If you are happy with gdb you can check https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2019/09/msg00013.html or also https://bugs.debian.org/806214 So new packages are fine but fixing some bugs inbetween is also very valuable. As a general remark to everybody: For the moment fixing only one bug per week brings you in our bugs statistics: http://blends.debian.net/liststats/bugs_debian-med.png :-P Hope that's sufficient inspiration to not get bored inbetween. ;-) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
