> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 09:11:27AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > >Why is their time more valuable than mine? > > Why do you think that your time is more valuable than theirs?
This question by Marc hits what I think is the core of this discussion. In my view, if somebody put in the effort to figure out some issue and they submitted a fix on Salsa, and it is properly documented, we should put in a few minutes to review the submission or otherwise acknowledge it. > In my opinion we should focus on the sum of wasted time. I'm fine, even > happy, with doing a minute of work if I know that it saves an hour in > the project, in the sum of all. I hope you would think the same. I hopefully saved you some time by documenting at https://wiki2025.debian.org/wiki/Salsa various ways that you can check for open MRs quickly. Also, I doubt that reviewing MRs actually takes that much time. New Merge Requests are very sporadic; it's not like there is a long queue of potential contributors out there. If you don't review team MRs and only care about the single-maintainer packages of your own, the number of MRs you would need to look at is likely very low. I don't advise people to disable MRs as it might discourage contributors and go against the Debian principle of "Be collaborative". Yes, some contributions are low quality or may require a few rounds of feedback before it gets there, but that is how open collaboration works. This is not a corporation with a HR department gatekeeping participants. We need to engage with various people and trust the open process and that eventually we will have more and more people doing better and better software.
