"Andrea Pappacoda" <ta...@debian.org> writes: > Hi Charles, > > On Sat Apr 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM CEST, Charles Plessy wrote: >> I just want to update you with a few words about the Gateway to NEW >> project. (https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team) >> >> Our goal is to have an infrastructure and tools to host pre-upload >> peer-review of the debian/copyright file of source packages before >> they are sent to the NEW queue, in the hope of making them perfect and >> reduce the rejection rate, thus accelerating the processing. > > I'm sorry, but I don't understand. Why should I do copyright reviews in > the Gateway to NEW team, instead of joining the NEW team itself? > (Ignoring the fact that joining the NEW team is a more involved process) > > As I understand it, doing copyright reviews outside of the NEW team > would not speed up processing, as they would have to re-review > everything anyway. The only thing this would help with is reduce > rejection rate, but in my experience rejects are quite rare.
For me the utility of this is to improve quality of packages. The more review a package get, chances are lower that it doesn't contain serious mistakes. If you want to join the NEW team and do reviews there instead, I would be equally happy. /Simon
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