Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 07:43pm +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 15:18:08 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: >>It's not about speed, but about being able to set the bug aside. > > Yes, I was agreeing with you - like I said, grouping together all the work > into one "transaction" h

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 15:18:08 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: It's not about speed, but about being able to set the bug aside. Yes, I was agreeing with you - like I said, grouping together all the work into one "transaction" has value, and DELAYED enables that. On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 02:33pm +0

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 06:16:40PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that Otto and Sean are discussing the merits of DELAYED vs MR vs > bugs for NMU-like contributions, while you are discussing how this > particular contribution (improving doc) should be handled. ah, lol, thanks Lucas. Pleas

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/07/25 at 15:57 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:43:01AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Yeah, me too (though I'd prefer a BTS bug to an MR, but it's the same). > > I definitly prefer an MR for such a change. > > (For more controversial changes I prefer to have a BTS t

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:43:01AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > Yeah, me too (though I'd prefer a BTS bug to an MR, but it's the same). I definitly prefer an MR for such a change. (For more controversial changes I prefer to have a BTS track record, because salsa can go away, while the BTS will st

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/07/25 at 12:03 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > +1 to clarifying the DELAYED queue section. Please also include an > example dcut command on how to remove a package from the DELAYED queue > if the maintainer does not want to have it. Right > Personally I would much rather see a contribution

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 02:33pm +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 11:43:01 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: >>The thing about DELAYED is that it's fire-and-forget for the contributor >>actually doing the work, which is an advantage. > > I agree that when the contributor doing the

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 12:03pm +02, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: If I am completely missing, I would be fine if somebody posted a MR and then after a few weeks went and merged it themselves and uploaded. This would still feel more collaborative than noticing a new package version as NMU in DELAYED. Does

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 15 Jul 2025 at 12:03pm +02, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > +1 to clarifying the DELAYED queue section. Please also include an > example dcut command on how to remove a package from the DELAYED queue > if the maintainer does not want to have it. > > Personally I would much rather see a con

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-15 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
+1 to clarifying the DELAYED queue section. Please also include an example dcut command on how to remove a package from the DELAYED queue if the maintainer does not want to have it. Personally I would much rather see a contribution being submitted to my packages as a Merge Request on Salsa, than a

Bug#1109323: developers-reference: extend documentation of delayed/deferred queue

2025-07-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: developers-reference Version: 13.20 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: ti...@debian.org Hi, The delayed/deferred queue mechanism is documented in section 5.6.3 (Delayed uploads). However https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg6.html has more details about queue handl