Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 08:44 Tue 25 May , Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:37:45PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:27:37PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > > > > David Moreno Garza used to run a script that retitled old ITA/ITP bugs > > > to O/RFP. Since this was

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 25. Mai 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > - 18 months delay may be shortenend to six monthes or 1 year, but I think > that 3 months is too short, unless the goal is really to make people close > their ITPs. I do not think that ITPs are discouraging people to contribute. > In contrary

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:58:37AM +0200, Xavier Oswald a écrit : > On 08:44 Tue 25 May , Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:37:45PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > - I think that it is better to close ITPs instead or retitling them RFPs, > > >otherwise we will

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Jonathan Niehof
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > More frequent pings, like every 3 months or maybe 2 even, OTOH, I'd say would > be useful to stimulate the wanna-be maintainers to get the work done. >From where I sit, the workload on -mentors and delay in RFS is a pretty big bottleneck. P

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/05/10 at 18:08 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:58:37AM +0200, Xavier Oswald a écrit : > > On 08:44 Tue 25 May , Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:37:45PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > > > - I think that it is better to close ITPs

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:01:14PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I do not have a strong opinion on the subject (since I never browse the RFP > > bugs), but I suggest to take the following threads and messages into account > > before making a final decision: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-pr

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:32:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I think RFPs are all but useless, and that an ITP does not automatically > translate into an RFP anyway - a stale ITP may mean that the proposer is no > longer interested in the package at all, not that they want someone else to > pa

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Olivier Berger
Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 21:27 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > Hi, > > David Moreno Garza used to run a script that retitled old ITA/ITP bugs > to O/RFP. Since this was a useful service, I reimplemented it, and have > been running it today with fairly conservative settings (18 months of > inactivi

Race condition ? (Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP)

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
retitle 466682 ITP: emboss-kaptain -- graphical interface to EMBOSS using Kaptain owner 466682 ! thanks Hi Lucas, I think that there is a race condition in the system: I started to do some ITP tidying after receiving the first round of retitlings, and the next day the script was changing the tit

Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP

2010-05-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/05/10 at 21:46 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: > Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 21:27 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > David Moreno Garza used to run a script that retitled old ITA/ITP bugs > > to O/RFP. Since this was a useful service, I reimplemented it, and have > > been running it to

Re: Race condition ? (Re: retitling old ITA/ITP bugs to O/RFP)

2010-05-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/05/10 at 10:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > I think that there is a race condition in the system: I started to do some ITP > tidying after receiving the first round of retitlings, and the next day the > script was changing the title of closed bugs, which is not such a big pro