-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings,
Hi Adam [...] > I must say, as a Debian developer at a US university, I feel this freeze > process has treated me very inconsiderately. We were told for about > eight months that a freeze was "on the way", which after four, five, six > and seven of those months didn't sound credible. Then suddenly in one > of the two busiest times of year at US universities (final exams in May > and December), we're given an ultimatum: get your packages done in two > weeks or they're out of sarge. The pressure has forced me to divert time > from writing and grading exams (babel in particular took the better part > of a whole day) and I am not happy about this at all. Because of the > propensity of academics (students, faculty and staff) to be free > software developers, and the fraction of Debian developers in the US, I > am certain I'm not alone in this. You had 7 months to make sure the packages you uploaded are ready for sarge... You only have 2 weeks to fix RC bugs that *still* don't make your package ready for sarge... > Given that processing of the NEW queue has been extremely slow over the > past several months (e.g. mpich lib restructuring sat there from Dec 22 > to Feb 19), which only picked up *after* the freeze, how can the release > team treat developers this way? "Your packages are not important enough > to process in less than two months, but you *must* turn around your last > fixes for sarge with just two weeks' notice during the busiest time of > year for a significant fraction of you." This problem has nothing to do with the release per se and has been solved as good as possible for the future. Cheers Luk PS: Please don't see this as an attack or something to start a flame for. I can understand that you think that the freeze came suddenly, but on the other hand there was in fact already for 7 months a pseudo freeze... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCiypx5UTeB5t8Mo0RAlyIAJsF2PdBjd6eYpjegY0KICfn+DNNGACgnwfl hcwfyNDk2vWFoVEns4SdHUQ= =jSqm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
