On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 04:04:25 -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: > I would personally *LOVE* to see ITPs be a requirement for *ALL* new packages.
Fine with me. > Making it a requirement and expecting ftp-masters to ignore any upload until > the ITP has existed for at least X days would be absolutely fantastic. Ehm, please, no. I would find it highly interruptive for my work if I'd have to wait for X days. > It would > fix some redundant library uploads (see golang/nodejs/etc.) and it would > provide a mandatory level of review by the wider community. > Back when I tried to get gitea packaged for main, I had a number of ITPs > commented/closed mentioning the alternate library name or a reason it can't be > packaged. Maybe that's helpful for some teams, in the perl team our tools (dh-make-perl in particular) check for existing packages and existing wnpp bugs. > Why do reviews take so long? As a side note: Not all reviews take long, there's seems to be quite some variance in the time they take. Cheers, gregor, who's usually very happy with the turnaround time of NEW packages -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Ry Cooder: Poor Man's Shangri-La
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