Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/05/10 at 15:07 +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Hi, > > It is good to care for packages from people who are currently too busy and > making NMUs to fix critical/very important bugs. However, lately I have been > seeing a lot of NMUs that are being very disruptive [0], you have a couple of > exam

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ana Guerrero (a...@debian.org): > I know this is done with the best intentions but if you think the package > is in bad shape or neglected by the maintainer then it might better write > to mia@, debian-qa@ or open a bug asking whether the package should be > orphaned (or even removed).

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-22 Thread tony mancill
Hi Ana, I'm happy to start the discussion. I sponsored the upload of a number of Jari's fixes. You state that they were disruptive, but I'm wondering to whom. The uploads were to delayed queues and the maintainer notified via the BTS, and in all cases where the maintainer actually ACK'd the bug

Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-22 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, It is good to care for packages from people who are currently too busy and making NMUs to fix critical/very important bugs. However, lately I have been seeing a lot of NMUs that are being very disruptive [0], you have a couple of examples below [1]. (This is not against Jari or Nobihuro, they