On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But > making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts > attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that > they are somehow crucial for high quality packages. I can assure, they are > not.
Getting back to the original point for a second, I think that it has been shown that there are no "right" or "wrong" nitpicks (at least in the list that you posted.) I originally wasn't trying to post a reference implementation for sponsorship but just give examples and reasons as to why those nitpicks might not be "wrong." Sponsors/DDs are well aware that there are multiple ways of handling a package for sponsorship. People asking for sponsorship are allowed to disagree with comments during a review, and being able to communicate the disagreement and work with a sponsor is a sign of maturity (someone that might be good to start the NM process.) One of the great things about sponsorship is that it is a case by case basis: each sponsor, sponsoree, and package has different levels of comfort, skill sets, and requirements. In some cases, the listed nitpicks are crucial for a high quality package, and in some cases they are, at best, an exercise in packaging (which, for many new contributors, may be quite useful.) At worst, to an experienced contributor, those nitpicks are a waste of time, but an experienced contributor should already have a good working relationship with a sponsor that wouldn't require all of that for an upload. A "cold call" request for sponsorship on -mentors will most likely have many nitpicks (some may even be contradictory: one sponsor may say no dh/cdbs while another may ask you to use dh/cdbs.) The requester's job is to take those reviews and work with their sponsor to do what's right for that package (and that sponsor.) Regards, Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANg8-dBi2G=FzpW3UVnLSNOXwZLEqAGb5NCuHMVDJ0u=jm0...@mail.gmail.com
