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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Ximin,

On Sat 24 Oct 2020 at 05:03PM +01, Ximin Luo wrote:

> 1. Automatically passing these empty rust packages (as I suggest) might slow down every Debian user perhaps by O(1 second).
> 2. Holding these empty rust packages slows down every user of Debian rust packages perhaps by O(several weeks).
> 3. Blocking these empty rust packages completely, slows down every user of Debian rust packages perhaps by O(several months) or even longer.
>
> There are 604800 seconds in a week.
>
> The current situation wastes more time for users overall, unless you believe that:
>
> - {Debian users} outnumber {users of Debian rust packages} by a factor of 604800 to 1, or
> - users of Debian rust packages are much more likely to have faster internet connections, and this difference in probabilities outweighs Debian users by a factor of 604800 to 1.
>
> neither of which seem like reasonable beliefs to me.

I don't think that Debian contributor time and Debian user time are
directly commensurable in the way your analysis suggests.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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