Update-excuses report?

dick morrell dick at webbedmail.com
Fri Apr 9 16:36:14 UTC 2004


Please don't hassle project managers of opensource projects - they give up 
huge amounts of time free for the common good. When I started Smoothwall 
I'd get people try this one and they soon stopped.

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Jesse Keating wrote:

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> On Friday 09 April 2004 05:36, John Dalbec wrote:
> > It would be nice if there were something like Debian's update-excuses
> > report that explained what was preventing various packages from being
> > moved to updates-testing (resp. updates).  For example, I did a
> > verification on the "mutt" package, but it hasn't moved to "updates"
> > yet.  Is my verification somehow unsatisfactory?  Is Jesse waiting for a
> > corroborating verification?
> >
> > Also, is anyone updating the bug priorities?  I don't know how those
> > should be set so I've been filing bugs with "normal" priority.  I see
> > one "blocker", two "critical", and several "major" bugs.  Are those
> > meaningful or were they just filed that way?
> 
> The biggest excuse has been my lack of time.  I had to get a couple 
> chapters written for an upcoming book, then I had in-laws drop in 
> unexpectantly.  Thankfully though, after this weekend's visit to another 
> set of inlaws I should have more free time before I need to start doing 
> some tech editing for yet another book.  There is also the issue of moving 
> download.fedoralegacy.org.  I don't want to make any changes to the 
> current one as rsync is off and httpd is severely throttled.  Once the new 
> system comes online, then I can make the changes (push the updates) that 
> need to happen.  I plan on devoting my free time to Legacy work.  There is 
> a lot in the queue that needs to be released, so those are top priority.  
> I am very sorry about the delay, wasn't expecting it.  We also need to 
> ramp up for RHL9 support.  I'll be building the RHL9 tree on download when 
> the new one comes up.
> 
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