Core-Dev Application: Till Kamppeter

[Stefan Potyra]

Hi,

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 17:28:10 Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Soren Hansen wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:46:16PM +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote:
> >>> We advertise Feature Freeze as a rather hard deadline for getting new
> >>> packages into the archive. People rushing to upload stuff moments
> >>> before FF kicks in is not an uncommon phenomenon. There's a reason we
> >>> don't release right after feature freeze :)  I happen to know that
> >>> it's usually not particularly difficult to get an FF exception
> >>> approved shortly after FF, but for someone who's never done that, it
> >>> might appear differently.
> >>
> >> I have to say that I have my doubts about this one, for a few reasons
> >> that I can't put into words right now.
> >
> > Yeah, I was a bit hasty there. Sorry.
> >
> > I'm not saying I'd have done the same if I had been in Till's shoes. I
> > wouldn't. I'd probably have asked the people on the motu-release team on
> > IRC if they'd accept the package in a day or two and then write the FFe
> > so that it was ready.
> >
> > I'm just saying that I don't consider this as severe as you apparantly
> > do.
>
> As far as I remember the problems of the first uploaded packages were
>
> - At least for some packages permissions and ownerships of some files
>    were not correct and so the printers supported by them were not
>    correct
> - The config file with the default settings for the printer driver was
>    located in /usr and world-writable

I guess you're missing the core points:

- files in /usr/local [1]
- the orig.tar.gz reconstructed, w.o. a hint what's in there and how it got 
reconstructed
- lots of unneeded "transitional" packages [2]

hm... I'm getting a little bit sceptical, when you wrote that pitti gave the 
2nd ACK. Why would he first review a package, and later reject it from 
source-new? [3].

Cheers,
    Stefan.
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[1]: 
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-lpr-drivers-mfc9420cn/1.0.0-1-0ubuntu2>
[2]: 
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-lpr-drivers-bh7/1.0.0-9-0ubuntu3>
[3]: 
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-lpr-drivers-mfc9420cn/1.0.0-1-0ubuntu1>
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