Re: Serializing transitions
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:37:59PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Neil Williams schrieb:
>
> >Wouldn't a simpler method be to identify uploads that inadvertently
> >impair an ongoing transition and bump that one upload to experimental
> >or simply tell the DD not to upload to unstable?
> [..]
> >Maybe extending dput functionality to check a file on a central server
> >that lists the ongoing transitions and blocking the upload in the first
> >place?
>
> Maybe I'm wrong but I thought the release team already has the
> possibility to block uploads because of transitions? I assumed the
> problem was to identify the packages involved in a transition...
Right, but those blocks are for specific packages. What we could
possibly need (at least at this point in the release cycle) would be a
general safety-guard to keep people from (maybe unknowingly) uploading
new transitions to unstable. Raphael's list might help here, if
implemented.
Michael
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