Hi Jonas, I've thought that it is probably not my turn to answer your questions but since there was no answer yet I'd like to report from my experience.
Am Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 05:21:45PM +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Is "Age" used to rank processing of NEW requests? I have some evidence that "Age" is at least not the only ranking factor for processing NEW requests. I've made the experience that the following hints are well perceived by ftpmaster: 1. Package in new fixes RC bug #xy 2. Package has just a new binary name and might be easier to process than other packages 3. Package has some importance for reason XY (this worked extremely well in April last year when we had the Debian Med Covid-19 sprint - I observed processing times less than 24 hours and I can't say frequently enough how thankful I am about this It is not always clear to me what channel is best for submitting those hints. IRC usefully works nicely, but not always. Responding to the mail that a package is in new can be helpful as well. For the Covid-19 sprint we had setup a dedicated Wiki page. > Is that documented somewhere? As far as I know it is not documented. > Or alternatively, do anyone have some (non cargo cult) > empirical knowledge about that? See above about my experience with ranking. I also think that my habit to say thank you to ftpmaster whenever there is a sensible chance is also a good way to motivate ftpmaster to do a work which I personally would consider not the most thrilling task on my own desk. It probably helps more than telling that ftpmaster is slow in working down the queue. So: Thank you to ftpmaster for processing the queue. However, I wished at least one member of ftpmaster team would lurk here on this list to clarify questions like these. What I was explicitly told by more than one ftpmaster is that kind of "free text" e-mails in their mailbox tend to be forgotten in the large amount of so many mails to this mailbox I can not even imagine. Thus I do not ftpmaster in my response which I would usually do in cases like this. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de