On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:37:34 +0900 Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote: > Le Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:36:43AM +1030, Karl Goetz a écrit : > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:45:56 +0900 > > Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > following our discussion in the ‘Four days’ thread, here is a > > > simple proposal for organising package peer reviews using the BTS. > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/PackageReview > > > > * How are partial reviews handled? one of the problems which is > > likely to steer people away from large packages is the time > > required to do a full review. > > * Is this review intended as a packaging review, or the full package > > (eg, including licence checks). > > Hi Karl, Hi, > I see the whole system as quite informal. The most important is to > contribute some useful feedback. If a partial review uncovers some > problems that will keep the maintainer busy for a while, it is better > to tell earlier than later. Conversely, if a maintainer would like > some feedback on a precise point, like license checks, he can write > it in his request. Thanks for the clarification. > Contributing reviews should not be a barrier for receiving ones. The > reason I try to insist in the proposal that requesters should review > somebody else's package, is to encourage beginners to do reviews. > There are always things that will be seen by the fresh eye, while the > maintainer progressively became blind to. It sounds like an interesting thing to attempt. Having your review reviewed (indirectly) by someone else as the next step is a nice byproduct too. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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