-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Charlie wrote: > Speed is only realized if a MOTU is *willing* to review your package. > If not it will just set there, and set there and set there. As a > matter of fact I have a package in REVU right now and the last MOTU > comment is dated July 10. And while I am up on my soap box, REVU days > are a joke, I have begged and begged and begged MOTU's to review my > package on what are suppose to be REVU days, like I said above the > last MOTU comment on my package is July 10. So to sum up Ubuntu's > REVU way of doing things is not any better or any worse than Debian's > mail only way of doing things.
I think this is a very valid point. A lot of the current MOTU's know that the majority of uploads on REVU aren't ready for uploading - hence, don't want to "waste their time", so to speak, on commenting, etc, when often the original person doesn't come back anyway. If you spend an hour on REVU, commenting people's uploads, finding people didn't test build (I had a package that failed to build *7* times, once), finding people didn't read the documentation (incorrect version numbers are the most obvious here!), and, at the end of it, got to upload nothing, there's relatively little point in doing so, compared to doing other more fruitful things. Most of the current MOTU's are not employed by Canonical, or any other company to work on Ubuntu - hence they have every right to work on the things that they want to - which often is with things that seem more worthwhile, whether that be their own things that they want to see in universe, or the patch sponsorship queue. I'd question why we're encouraging our hopefuls to put in new packages, when for the majority of them don't care for what they're packaging - they're only doing it for the experience - which means that they wont update the package, and in the next release (or sooner) it'll sit in the archive and rot, as no one cares about it. I'd prefer to see people fixing bugs in *existing* packages. The sponsorship queue is shorter, and it benefits more people. When we have a huge number of bugs in universe, I cant see the point of adding more packages with bugs, which the original hopefuls won't fix, as they only did it for experience sake. Hobbsee -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGrePU7/o1b30rzoURAuOkAKCN0/zcvCWcjEc5By0sIo88d84+cwCfe8Hq X25ZaZG9vJmNCgS5CYL5U9o= =HSeu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
