Dear DFSG team,After a discussion with Mechtilde yesterday here at the MiniDebConf in Hamburg, we realized that the deal the Release Team had with the former ftp-master team might not have been transferred. I assume you are aware that the Release Team requests [1] maintainers to start transitions in experimental in principle. At least during the freeze, the ftp-master team was helping out on that front by not accepting uploads to unstable that would start a transition. I think they occasionally also pointed out the procedures and prevented accidental transitions from starting without alignment with us.
As you now have much automation in place, I'm wondering if you could you help us with this? As a first step, maybe a big fat warning in the review pages for binNEW package could already help in some cases. And maybe holding of acceptance in dubious cases would help too.
Paul [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
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