[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Concerns about NGINX in Debian

[Ondřej Nový]

Hi Thomas,

Feel free to join the team and help us. New people are always welcome :)

I don't see the point of the Salvaging __team__ package with a "welcome new
members" policy.

so 2. 4. 2022 v 6:14 odesílatel Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com> napsal:

> I don't wish to be a nag or anything, however I have some grave concerns
> with how the NGINX package is being handled in Debian.
>
> Not only did it take *months* to address the Lua bug that broke the
> package and threatened to remove the packaging in Testing, the subsequent
> FTBFS that blocks the -8 upgrade went ignored for 14 days before I went
> checking, and subsequently filed [1] has been unignored for ~18 days
> according to the tracker.
>
> I know that Debian nginx team is busy, however this is one of those
> packages that should PROBABLY not drop off of your radars.
>
> The last time that the package had issues that went unaddressed for
> months, I was highly tempted to go the Package Salvage route, and then
> subsequently involve the MIA team because this package is used by so many
> and needs to be maintained - not just because downstream users in Ubuntu
> like it, but because nginx has a SUBSTANTIAL share of the httpd servers
> being used right now live.
>
> Is there anything I can do to assist you in the process of keeping an eye
> on NGINX?  Is there anything that you need to keep maintaining this given
> that it seems that the actual NGINX team is extraordinarily *small* and
> potentially unable to maintain the package to the standards it needs?
>
>
> Thomas
>


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S pozdravem/Best regards
 Ondřej Nový
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