upload protocol

[Warren Young]

On 10/9/2012 10:58 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Would it make sense to always wait for an "RFU" after an "ITP"?

That's how I thought it always worked.  To my mind, ITP is only a trial 
run, asking experienced packagers to test that everything's okay.  RFU 
is exactly what it says: the request for upload.  ITP followed by GTG 
implies that an RFU is coming shortly, but I agree with Chris, nothing 
should happen until that RFU *does* come.  It gives the packager a 
chance to change something minor brought up in the ITP discussion, for 
example.

As it happens, I think this sort of gun-jumping happened with the 
Doxygen 1.8.0-1 packages.  I gave a GTG with reservations to the ITP, 
several days ago.  David said in the thread he was off working on 
addressing some of those reservations, but then yesterday Corinna 
uploaded from the ITP message.

I'm not regretting my GTG.  I thought the packages were at least no 
worse than my 1.7.4-1 packages that David's packages replace.  But, I 
think David was expecting a second chance before sending the RFU.