[pkg-mad-maintainers] Re: Accepted libid3tag 0.15.1b-5 (i386 source)

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:55:51PM +0200, Matej Vela wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:32:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Hi Matej,
> > 
> > May I ask why you did this QA upload on a package that has an ITA
> > without contacting us first?
> 
> A number of reasons:
> 
>  * The PTS subscriber count was 0.
>  * The *trivial* bug was 10 days old.

There are alot of trivial bugs in the BTS with a perfect patch in
it that are a year old.

>  * The ITA was 40 days old.
>  * The ITA owner, Clement Stenac, is not a Debian developer yet.
>    (Which "us" do you refer to?)

We created a project on alioth to take the 3 mad packages:
libmad, libid3tag and madplay.

We're with 3 people, 2 who are in the final stage on NM (waiting
DAM approval) and 1 DD.

> The sad thing about ITA pings is, most people will give a positive reply
> regardless of how close they are to uploading a package, and all that time
> the submitter sees the QA group doing nothing... I'm sorry, but until you
> do an upload, we *are* the maintainer.

I don't mind that you do an upload.  I find it good that people
actually care.  It would just have been nice that you atleast
contacted him, so we knew that you were planning on doing that.
Now we have to find out that someone uploaded it ourself.

> > This patch was even already applied in CVS.  (Maybe it should have been
> > marked as pending.)
> 
> Maybe you should have taken 5 minutes to change the Maintainer field,
> or 5 minutes more to just fix the bug.

This has all been fixed in our CVS repository, together with a
lot of other changes.  It just hasn't been properly tested and
uploaded to the archive yet.


Kurt