Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Loïc Minier, 2006-06-23 16:40:06 +0200 : > > [...] > >> Probably the biggest reason why I feel this extra time would be >> useful is because the new Python Policy and the tools supporting it >> saw non-negligible changes in the last days. All of this onl

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-24 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006, Roland Mas wrote: > And here I was, thinking a policy was a collection of tried and true > best practices turned into official status after they've been in use > by most concerned packages for some time. IIUC, the benefit of the new policy is to ease switching to new Python

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-24 Thread Roland Mas
Loïc Minier, 2006-06-23 16:40:06 +0200 : [...] > Probably the biggest reason why I feel this extra time would be > useful is because the new Python Policy and the tools supporting it > saw non-negligible changes in the last days. All of this only > settled very recently. This explains why m

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:43 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yes: > http://www.ouaza.com/wordpress/2006/06/23/the-python-transition-can-continue/ > > I wonder if I should make a second announce on -devel-announce just to > make it clear to everybody. At the lease I would appreciate (as a python ap

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:43:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Probably the biggest reason why I feel this extra time would be useful > >

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Probably the biggest reason why I feel this extra time would be useful > > is because the new Python Policy and the tools supporting it saw > > non-negligible changes

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > delayed upload means that the NMUer sent his patch to the bug report, > and then the maintainer can start from that to do his work. so it's > basically *not* doing the work twice :) delayed upload means the NMUer lost the time to prepare the NMU ev

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's nice that people spend extra time in taking care of the packages > of others, for example when they upload a NMU to fix serious or > important issues, however this is not always desired or re

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le ven 23 juin 2006 16:33, Loïc Minier a écrit : > PS: DELAYED is fine, even if that might mean that the work might be > made twice, once by the NMUer, and once by the maintainer. delayed upload means that the NMUer sent his patch to the bug report, and then the maintainer can start from that to

NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, It's nice that people spend extra time in taking care of the packages of others, for example when they upload a NMU to fix serious or important issues, however this is not always desired or required immediately. I suppose some people think the green flag has been waved for NMUin