Mentors BoF at DebConf (was: Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages))

2010-06-17 Thread Tim Retout
On 16 June 2010 03:21, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org wrote: (Advance warning: I'm interested in discussing the mentoring process at DebConf.) Please register a BoF in penta about it to give folks more advance warning. I've

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:59:04 -0700 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:50:28AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: What about if Debian QA packages were all to be deemed suitable for DM upload, including those which have been orphaned for over 2 months without a

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-16 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Tim Retout wrote: On 15 June 2010 21:59, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Encouraging maintainers to invest their time in QA makes more sense than adding more NEW packages to become the QA workload of the future. Directing everyone at NEW is

Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 15.06.2010 09:50, schrieb Neil Williams: OTOH if those requesting sponsorship were more open to packaging some of the orphaned packages listed under WNPP and qa.debian.org which have already been through NEW [..] What about if Debian QA packages were all to be deemed suitable for

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:12:22 +0200 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl alexan...@schmehl.info wrote: Hi! Am 15.06.2010 09:50, schrieb Neil Williams: OTOH if those requesting sponsorship were more open to packaging some of the orphaned packages listed under WNPP and qa.debian.org which have

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:28:19 +0200 Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org, 2010-06-15, 08:50: What about if Debian QA packages were all to be deemed suitable for DM upload, including those which have been orphaned for over 2 months without a change of

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-15 Thread Tim Retout
On 15 June 2010 21:59, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Encouraging maintainers to invest their time in QA makes more sense than adding more NEW packages to become the QA workload of the future. Directing everyone at NEW is counter-productive and encourages more horrible first-time

Re: Allowing QA uploads for DMs (was: A lot of pending packages)

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org wrote: (Advance warning: I'm interested in discussing the mentoring process at DebConf.) Please register a BoF in penta about it to give folks more advance warning. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To