Re: Chosing release goals for slink
"Jules Bean" <jules@jellybean.co.uk> writes:
> >> * Developer controlled automatic archive maintenance (eg removal of
> >> packages automatically after GPG signed email with list of
> >> packages to delete)
> >
> > I think this idea, as presented here, is very bad. Even with sanity
> > checks and more thought, I'm not impressed by the idea and don't think
> > it would be worth the effort to implement. We now have people helping
> > Guy, and the ftp site should be much less of a problem than it has
> > been recently.
>
> Hmm... I don't quite understand your objection. For example, I
> think that if a developer could send a 'backout' message meaning 'my
> last upload was screwed up, sorry, please revert to previous version
> while I prepare a new one' that would be valuable...
That would be undoable. We don't keep previous versions of packages
around.
But anyway, my objection to this is that it's a lot of effort (which,
incidentally, I don't see anyone volunteering to do; or did you all
expect Guy to do it?) for *minimal* gain and I don't believe people
have even thought through all the potential pitfalls involved as well
(unless anyone seriously thinks all maintainers should be able to do
anything to all packages).
The ftp site now has helpers. The problems of long periods of virtual
neglect will hopefully be a thing of a past. In fact I just finished
right now running through Incoming and have processed all the ``NEW''
packages there[1].
[1] Except packages I've marked for rejection, because, uh, I can't
get dinstall to manually reject packages. ho hum.
--
James
~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/
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