From: otto@debian.org 
  
 > On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 09:11:27AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: 
 > >Why is their time more valuable than mine? 
 > 
 > Why do you think that your time is more valuable than theirs? 
  
 This question by Marc hits what I think is the core of this discussion. 
  
 In my view, if somebody put in the effort to figure out some issue and 
 they submitted a fix on Salsa, and it is properly documented, we 
 should put in a few minutes to review the submission or otherwise 
 acknowledge it. 
  
 > In my opinion we should focus on the sum of wasted time. I'm fine, even 
 > happy, with doing a minute of work if I know that it saves an hour in 
 > the project, in the sum of all. I hope you would think the same. 
  
 I hopefully saved you some time by documenting at 
 https://wiki2025.debian.org/wiki/Salsa various ways that you can check 
 for open MRs quickly. 
  
 Also, I doubt that reviewing MRs actually takes that much time. New 
 Merge Requests are very sporadic; it's not like there is a long queue 
 of potential contributors out there. If you don't review team MRs and 
 only care about the single-maintainer packages of your own, the number 
 of MRs you would need to look at is likely very low. 
  
 I don't advise people to disable MRs as it might discourage 
 contributors and go against the Debian principle of "Be 
 collaborative". Yes, some contributions are low quality or may require 
 a few rounds of feedback before it gets there, but that is how open 
 collaboration works. This is not a corporation with a HR department 
 gatekeeping participants. We need to engage with various people and 
 trust the open process and that eventually we will have more and more 
 people doing better and better software. 
  
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