Re: Testing-watch emails

["Adam D. Barratt" <highvol-debian-devel@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:17 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
> 
> > If you're interested in making this happen I'll be happy to give
> > you any info I can;
> 
> OK, here are some questions.
> 
>  1) The copy of britney in merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/ does not seem
>     to be synced regularly. Is there a place where one can see the
>     current code? It's not in the dak cvs (which appears to be
>     out-of-date wrt the merkel mirror anyway), and I tried poking
>     around on {cvs,svn,arch}.debian.org to no avail.

http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_out_code/ is the "official"
current code, afaik. From time to time, there may be other versions
floating around - there's a least one in ~ajt on ftp-master currently.

>  3) Do you (or somebody in QA who reads this) happen to know how the
>     'keyword' under which the PTS forwards emails is transmitted? I
>     cannot find any code in katie that sets this. Does the PTS analyse
>     subject lines for fixed patterns?

*_upload@packages.qa.d.o is subscribed to -devel-changes and processes
the mails in real-time. 

http://cvs.debian.org/pts/?cvsroot=qa is useful here.
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/pts is linked from the front page
of p.qa.d.o, and contains a link to a presentation Raphael Hertzog
(buxy) made about the PTS.

>     (Currently I'm extrapolating from the documented
>     packagename_cvs@packages.qa.debian.org syntax, but I'm not sure
>     that is the Right Thing to do).
> 
> I'm not sure this is the right list to ask on, what with this being
> technical matters rather than a flamewar. :-) Feel free to move to
> somewhere appropriate, cc'ing me.

In terms of the PTS, either asking buxy directly or -qa@l.d.o usually
works. britney and other ftp-master related topics are probably most
appropriate on dak-disc@l.d.o, imho.

Adam