On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:26:13AM +0100, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote:
> > 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
> > version bump requests?
> Just an idea:
> How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests are welcome?
> It's more of an individual developer preference, but that seems the right place for it.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony V.

I think Tony's metadata.xml idea is perhaps the proper way to handle
this issue. 

As for your questions, I like getting bump requests as soon as possible, as I can't check
upstream's website every day or two. One thing to watch out for is
a huge amount duplicates.