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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o>
Subject: Re: RFC: 0-day bump requests
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:30:05 -0600
Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote:
> The time I can spend
> trawling upstream sites for new releases is limited.

Same here - I would never mind getting a 0-day bump request, since
someone else might have noticed before I did that a new version is
available.

> 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.

It might make sense if the default were that 0-day is OK (especially if
most devs don't mind).  If not, then the tag could specifiy the number
of days to wait...

						-Joe
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