[R-pkg-team] When working on r-* packages in new please work First-in-First-Out (Was: r-cran-stanheaders_2.17.2-1_amd64.changes is NEW)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Chris,

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 08:34:37AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > Bug #852925 is a good example why this makes a difference.  Despite I
> > mailed ftpmaster about the fact that r-cran-aer needs to be accepted
> > before r-cran-zelig this information somehow slipped through
> 
> I understand but I fear you may be underestimating how much mail the
> ftpmaster@ email inbox gets

Most probably ...

> as well as the mental overhead of having
> to store state about R-specific packages. :)
> 
> The odd bug (which has a known solution & one that's additionally
> being publically documented) doesn't seem too bad of a trade-off..

OK.  So if it is not helpful what I assumed to be my contribution to
help avoiding this kind of bugs I'll stop doing this.

Thanks for the clarification and your work as ftpmaster in general

      Andreas.

PS: What about hints about low hanging fruits like r-cran-bh?  Is
at least this helpful or another kind of noise?

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