Hi Christoph,
I'm taking this to the lts list, as I think this deserves more peoples
thoughts:
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:56:43PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> As said elsewhere [...] I think part of the problem is
> that https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development is way too long. It
> shouldn't try to tell newcomers how to test packages etc, but just
> list the necessary steps required to a DLA. At the moment the "please
> also update webml" is hidden in a wall of text. And because the text
> is meant for newcomers, I'm not going to read it again for each
> upload.
I agree that page is too long, and that a shorter checklist would be
very nice to have. And then it just occurred to me that the table of content
on that page *is* that:
Contents:
3. Prepare security updates for LTS
1. Claim the issue in the security tracker (in dla-needed.txt)
2. Build the update
3. Test the update
4. Upload the update
5. Claim an DLA ID in DLA/list
6. Announce the update
7. Prepare an update for the website
Should we maybe put just this on a page called https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development/TLDR
which then people can look at when they occasionally do a DLA?
(and link to that TLDR page promininently from our other pages?)
do you think this would be an improvement? Do you have other ideas?
> (At the very least it could have a visible note at the top
> that says there was a recent change.)
I'm not sure this will help that much... a.) people miss these notes and
then b.) how long ago is 'recent'?
--
tschau,
Holger
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org
PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature