On Wed, Dec 25 2019, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:11:43AM -0500, Scott Kitterman a écrit : >> >> More generally, New is being processed as fast as it can given available >> volunteer time. Any delays are not reflective of a lack of value placed on >> people's contributions. > > Hi Scott, John, everybody, > > In the past I proposed a system of peer review to pre-screen the > packages that are in the NEW queue. > > https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview > > It never took off but maybe some process along these lines could help > reducing the time needed by the FTP Masters to process the packages ? I like the way you're going with this. It would make great sense to spread the load on things like this, to people that may be able to contribute in this area but not necessarily to managing the archive itself, etc. There's no particular reason that those tasks must be combined. John