Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 12:53:07PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I still do not understand why Debian can redistribute any non-reviewed > source package through people.debian.org or vcs.debian.org, but would have > legal problems of letting persons read the incoming queue. ftp-master is (delibera

Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:25:16AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:12:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I do not know, maybe the core of the problem is not whether the packages are > > available, but who takes the responsability to make them available : I > > thin

Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:12:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I do not know, maybe the core of the problem is not whether the packages are > available, but who takes the responsability to make them available : I think I > remember that it was asked and refused that they can be downloaded from t

Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:24:20PM +0900, Paul Wise a écrit : > > Unless you are in the ftpteam group, you won't be able to access the > packages in NEW: Hmmm… the Tyranny of Unix Permissions[1] :( Anyway, many packages provide other means of access (VCS, mentors.d.n, personal repository…). How

Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I do not know, maybe the core of the problem is not whether the packages are > available, but who takes the responsability to make them available : I think I > remember that it was asked and refused that they can be downloaded from the > ft

Re: Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:49:40PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > The packages are on merkel.debian.org in the > > /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/new/ directory. Since they are not > > accessible on http://ftp-master.debian.org, I guess that we are not > > allowed to commun

Assisting with NEW queue backlog (was: What is going wrong with NEW?)

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > speaking as somebody who contributed ~10 packages to the load, I > would like to help to clear the queue. I have no pretention about > being able to accept packages, but will try to browse some new ones > this week-end and send a few patches for their debian/copyright fil

Re: What is going wrong with NEW?

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 05:50:50PM +0100, Ana Guerrero a écrit : > > In the moment of writing these lines, we have 361 packages in the NEW queue > [0]. Hello everybody, speaking as somebody who contributed ~10 packages to the load, I would like to help to clear the queue. I have no pretention

Re: What is going wrong with NEW?

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Ana Guerrero writes: > In the moment of writing these lines, we have 361 packages in the NEW > queue [0]. No all of those packages are strictly NEW, some are just > packages containing new binaries or just package renames. For whatever it's worth, the queue isn't stalled entirely. A bunch of m

What is going wrong with NEW?

2009-03-05 Thread Ana Guerrero
In the moment of writing these lines, we have 361 packages in the NEW queue [0]. No all of those packages are strictly NEW, some are just packages containing new binaries or just package renames. The team who look at this, also handle another stuff like packages removal from the archive or main