proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Oct 6 14:50:59 UTC 2011


On Thursday, October 06, 2011 03:27:13 PM Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit :
> > > You might not ever hear about it, but every time something is
> > > removed you are potentially letting people down.
> > 
> > Right, but every time an annoying but in a software that 90% of our
> > users run is not fixed because the time has been spent on a package used
> > by a few users in universe how many users do we let down?
> 
> Developers aren't interchangeable.  If you don't have time yourself then
> it's perfectly reasonable to organise people to help out; you'll
> probably save about as much time that way because you won't have to
> field so many complaints.
> 
> The problem is when people simply ignore and abandon the problem.

+1

Scott K



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