On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:56:58PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2005 19:14, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Hi, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > As far as a NEW-review team, when I raised this about a week ago, aj said > > > that you'd effectively be ftpmasters, so why not be an ftpmaster? > > > > Umm, no. I presume ftpmaster has other duties. Besides, eyeballing the new > > packages and drafting a list for ftpmaster to cross-read and implement > > isn't the same as implementing the actions directly; I suppose initially > > new ftpmasters would do the former until the "old" ftpmaster team is > > cnfident the new guys' (gals??) skills are up to the task. > > Where I am very surprised that nobody of the very vocal and oh-so-bored > maintainers who have nothing else to than waiting for their NEW packages has > started an effort to the latter effect: Collecting tidbits of information > concerning the various packages rotting in NEW and making that information > public. > > Without public information, there is no discussion. > > Without discussing those things (especially those ftp-masters have generally > express their distrust by ignoring them) nothing will happen.
Well, when one sees the response one get to tidbit of information send to the ftp-masters about one selfs package sitting in NEW, you should understand the discouragement that such kind of thrown-away work is. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]