[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Rust Packages, BoF meeting notes

[Ximin Luo]

Sean Whitton:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon 26 Oct 2020 at 02:53PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 
>> I don't think that Debian contributor time and Debian user time are
>> directly commensurable in the way your analysis suggests.
> 
> I'm sorry, that was unnecessarily brief.
> 
> I don't think that we can deal with a concern about serving users by
> arguing simply that not serving users in that way results in a net time
> saving for contributors.  The question is always whether serving users
> in that particular way is important to our mission.  So, I think we need
> to think in a more complex way than the sort of arithmetical approach
> you suggest.
> 

Then precisely *what* sort of complex way??

Me offering an inaccurate simple arithmetical approach that can at least be debated, is better than FTP masters not offering *any transparency* on the various different criteria that they may or may not have considered in coming to this decision, and just handwaving the decision based on unstated intuition and implicit assumptions.

This has been going on for a while now, but the latest example is that Joerg Jaspert's latest string of REJECTs simply decrees that "decision for the rejection can be found in the above log .. [link]" without any explanation of how the decision has been reached.

This is not how Debian teams should be communicating their decision making processes.

Best
Ximin

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