Motivation: For some time now, one of the things that the Release Team has had to deal with are complex transitions. One of the requirements for making a transition work is that maintainers of involved packages must not upload. However, for whatever reasons, some maintainers do upload, and thus a lot of time is wasted.
Proposal: Implement a new file, that works similarly to the hints file, but that causes uploads to unstable for selected packages to be rejected. Thus, if a maintainer uploads, it won't get through so that it won't get in the way of the transition. I talked about this with Dato and Ganneff. They suggested the file should be a yaml file, listing source packages, and the reason for the blocking (i.e. the transition they are involved in). Ganneff volunteered to prepare the patch after the format of the file is decided. So, what do you think about it? PS: no need to CC me, I'm subscribed. -- Saludos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
