requesting for changes to be sent to debian before sponsoring an upload

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:29:04PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Jordan Mantha wrote:
> > Can we set some sort of "bar" where we can
> > "give up" and carry the divergence? Something like "file a bug in BTS
> > and if you don't get anything within a week we'll upload" perhaps?
> 
> It's not about getting the change accepted before sponsoring, but to get the
> change forwarded (or that's what I understood and what I'm in favour of). So one
> minute after the change is forwarded would be appropriate IMHO. If it gets
> accepted, it will be synced/merged next time.

Agreed.  We can't block uploads waiting for responses from Debian
maintainers, but we can ensure that the right thing has been done in
forwarding the patches.

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 - mdz