On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:36:07AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I must say, as a Debian developer at a US university, I feel this freeze > process has treated me very inconsiderately. We were told for about > eight months that a freeze was "on the way", which after four, five, six > and seven of those months didn't sound credible. Then suddenly in one [..]
> Given that processing of the NEW queue has been extremely slow over the > past several months (e.g. mpich lib restructuring sat there from Dec 22 > to Feb 19), which only picked up *after* the freeze, how can the release > team treat developers this way? "Your packages are not important enough That's not true. The new FTP assistants were announced in March: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/03/msg00142.html NEW processing picked up dramatically from March. The final freeze occurred in early May. I humbly suggest that if you had treated each of those almost-freeze announcements as a call to get your packages ready, they would be in pretty good shape. They didn't all clash with your busy times of year. Co-maintainers and NMUs can help too. Hamish (not a release assistant, so don't flame them for my comments). -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
