On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 01:08:28PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:59:24PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > I regularly see a package claimed while the packager already claimed > > others, and then semi-automatically unclaimed after two weeks. Moreover, > > the package is then claimed by another packager, which means the initial > > work (if any) was useless, and the security update was basically delayed > > for no reason (while it's time-sensitive). > > I've seen this too though I have concluded (most?) often the situation > is unclear / involving slowly / etc, and thus the package has been claimed > for long. At least this is my impression from the cases where I asked > or looked deeper myself. > > > Since I see this regularly, I wonder if we should enforce a harder rule > > (e.g. 2 at most), or find some other way to curb that trend. > > I'd set that number to 3 or 4 and also (at first?) only make it a warning > in my weekly semi-automatic mails. > > > Thoughts? > > thanks for bringing this up! I'm curious what others think too. >
I would be in favor of that. At times I've been frustrated by seeing five or six claims from a single individual. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
