On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:01:12PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:38:56AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > The experimental distribution is a good place for work in > > > > progress. Maybe the rules for automatic rejects can be relaxed for > > > > experimental so a package can go into the archive (and have e.g. the BTS > > > > used for that version) if the maintainer doesn't want to fix the reject > > > > right away. > > > > > > I see a problem with relaxing the rules - if a project is in > > > experimental one could (theoretical) upload it to unstable too - without > > > any changes, because it is in the repository. > > > > Can we please work on the assumption that Debian Contributors know what > > they're doing? > In that case please abolish NEW.
I said "the assumption", as in "it's probably true". The NEW queue is mostly to avoid issues that could cause us legal problems, so there it makes sense. > > Our (NM and other) processes are extensive enough to make > > that assumption valid in the general case. > Not all DDs got through NM AFAIK. Those that didn't have now been active in the project for ~20 years. *If* they were not competent when they started, either they have now long since left or have learned what they needed to... -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
