Re: Multi-person sponsorship
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:57:55PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> The final question I'd like feedback on is this: how many sponsors
> would consider pointing their sponsees to this service, rather than
> whatever methods you're using now? The benefits are that other
> sponsors might occasionally take a bit of your workload, and if you go
> on holidays / get sick / whatever, your sponsees aren't left to start
> from scratch. Another benefit could be that "occasional" uploads
> (such as NMUs and whatnot) could be handled by a team, rather than by
> lots of indiscriminate begging on d-mentors and elsewhere.
I like the automatic build testing, but would like to stress that these
packages would still need installation and usage testing.
> The final step I'm planning on building into the system is a way for
> sponsors to get packages out of this queue system I've built so they
> can check them over and upload. The problem is, I'm not sure how to
> do this optimally. My constraints are:
>
> * Must be quick and simple to use. Too much hassle will cause
> sponsors not to use the system due to excessive pain.
Could create an upload queue similar to Debian's current ftp uploads. I
would check the upload to see if it's signed by a developer's key. If
so, it could remove the package from your queue and forward the signed
upload on to Debian's upload queue.
> 2) Web. Surprise! Makes the tracking stuff harder (probably need to
> go to a login-based approach - yay, another password to
> remember/manage) but simplifies the package selection and downloads
> won't be quite so horrendous. Easier for me to implement because it's
> what I get paid to write (webapps).
I would prefer this approach.
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