Re: About backports.
Hi Afif,
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 07:46:05PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >>From a strategic point of view I'm not sure that some extra
> > infrastucture will support the idea of convergence to collect people
> > behind a common idea.
>
>
> Even with the current system in Debian, this can be somewhat
> automated--for example, setting up a machine to respond to the testing
> migration emails by triggering a rebuild of a package on a Stable chroot
> and, if it succeeds and passes tests, to automatically prepare the
> package and upload to backports.
That's a brilliant idea! I've just thrown this idea on the breakfast
table here at DebConf and everybody likes it a lot!
> I could look into doing part of this,
> but I obviously can't do any uploads, automated or otherwise. If I ever
> get to become a DD, I could then look into taking care of this whole
> process.
Please get a DD soon! ;-)
> We would then just need to keep track of a list of packages that should
> be backported.
Fully understood the idea.
I'd be really happy if you would work on this
Andreas.
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