Tim is a great team leader and incredibly skilled with
programming and
seeing both the trees and forest.
But Tim is only one person.
There are many patches that have been submitted to the bugzilla. Those
patches have yet to be merged.
Many of those patches directly affect building packages. Perhaps I'm out
in left field, but seems to me that all build related bug reports should
be resolved as fast as possible. Any such report with a patch should be
merged within a day or two. Granted, often we bypass the bugzilla and
resolve build related bugs directly in this list, but I'm addressing those
that do get filed in the bugzilla.
Is Tim the only person qualified or allowed to merge patches? He has to
sleep too and should not be the only person merging patches. Many of the
patches are nominal or trivial. Others should be able merge those types of
patches. If Tim is not the only person, is anybody who has GIT access
interested in merging those patches?
If Tim is the only person then why don't we have alternates to share the
load for when Tim is busy with other life requirements?
All of this leads into an important topic. Where do we stand when Tim has
to devote time and energy to other life requirements? Do we have a Plan B
to keep the project moving forward? Seems to me that whenever Tim is not
merging patches the project grinds to a halt. That's a high compliment to
Tim, but an uncomfortable reflection on the project. :(
Darrell
Serghei also has commit access. I have been waiting to merge patches
until I can build test the packages, but with recent changes I am waiting
on an archive rebuild for Ubuntu.
Tim