On 04/05/11 at 13:33 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:31:20PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Didier Raboud <o...@debian.org> (04/05/2011): > > > The proposed wording doesn't imply this IMHO; I read it as "if you > > > can't find an action from the maintainer on the buglog in the last 7 > > > days, you can 0-day NMU". > > > > > > What we want is more something along the lines of "If the bug is > > > older than 7 days without any maintainer activity /at all/, you can > > > 0-day NMU". > > > > > > I don't think we can expect maintainers to ping their RC bugs on a > > > weekly basis, just to repeat "I'm working on a proper fix, it takes > > > time, don't NMU please". Perhaps we need a "willfix" or > > > "dont-nmu-please" tag… > > > > > > -- > > > OdyX > > > > reading Jakub's answer, I realized it could indeed be understood this > > way. I'll be happily seconding any wording clarifying that. > > > > Happy to take phrasing updates, but I would be keen to ensure that a > maintainer can't just ack a bug, and then leave it for months. Perhaps > something that means a maintainer needs to say 'I expect this to be done > by $foo' and $foo + 1 week would be the deadline?
I think that if you want to change the NMU procedures described in dev-ref, you should at least discuss the proposals in a similar forum than the one where the current recommendations were discussed, i.e debian-devel@ or debian-project@. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110504131405.ga18...@xanadu.blop.info
