Hello Mattia, On Sun, 24 May 2020, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 05:03:50PM -0700, debianb...@felinefamily.org wrote: > > The package maintainer, Arnoud Fountaine uploaded the fix to the last > > bug a week or so ago but it’s been stuck in the NEW queue ever since. > > Is there anyone that can approve it so it can get moved to Sid > > NEW is a manual process from the ftp-team. > It can take from a few hours up to months, and it's not really something > that can be prodded just to have a quicker backports. > The queue is processed in a non specified order, and you can see it > here: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > > *Usually* (not always!), if it's a small packages it is processed quite > quickly, but poking the ftp team before not even a month has passed > without a good reason (for example, it's blocking an RC bug fix) is just > inappropriate.
I don't agree with your assessment. A month is a very long time and I have prodded members of the FTP team way earlier than that when I had a reason. And here a reason was given. I don't really see why you judge that reason to not be a good reason. Any reason which ends up as "it's blocking further work" is a good reason IMO. Mattia, I really appreciate what you have been doing in Debian but at times I have the feeling that you keep alive the idea that some of the most glaring deficiencies of Debian are "normal". Please try to show some compassion to other contributors when they are stuck. To me, the above response sounded like "yeah, that's normal, don't complain, it's inappropriate". It would have been much better if it had been worded as « It's unfortunate that this is blocking your work but NEW is a manual process.... <skip explanation> To speed up the process, you can try to prod ftpmasters on #debian-ftp explaning your reason why you need it. I'm not convinced that a backport passes the threshold justifying such a prod but you can always try. » Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
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