* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 10:50]: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Additionally, I would like to seriously propose establishing a > > pre-upload interface to ftpmaster so that a developer could learn that > > he is writing a package pending rejection after upload _before_ > > spending time on building that package. I find it disturbingly > > impolite to say "sorry, we don't want your volunteer work" _after_ the > > work has been done. > So, let me get this straight: you think that if a volunteer does some > work then it should be accepted into Debian unconditionally? No matter > what? Because that's what you seem to be saying. Marc is doing it the other way: He want an interface to reject a package before substantial work has been spent on it. So there shouldn't be this conflict any more, which would be a good thing. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C