Quoting Steffen Möller (2019-12-27 01:53:51) > Folks at conda do everything on github, including a peer review. For > most scientific packages I sense this to be just fine. Maybe we could > somehow stage our developments? A peer-reviewed (as in "get at least > three signatures" maybe?) instant upload into a "periphery" > distribution with a transition into a "as time permits" > FTPmaster-scrutinized "main" distribution? If you want to setup a Debian-compatible pool of packages and make them easiest and most secure to use by Debian users, then have a look at the package extrepo. I know, that is not really what you talk about above. Above you talk about an _intermediary step which speeds up ftpmaster processing - but I cannot help second-guess which technical changes might help ftpmasters. I suspect what helps ftpmasters is more volunteers doing the work (not technical changes to how their work is done). But that is just a guess, based on what few messages I have noticed from them about their needs. > Also, I find it somehow sad that FTPmasters after their ingenious > isolation of a problem that would then be fixed real easy don't have > the chance to just do the fix in salsa and have the package accepted > from there. The workflow now is that the package goes back to the > uploading developer who then fixes the typically trivial bit and the > package impose the same work on the FTPmasters again, often with a > llooonngg delay again. Instant trivial fixes would dramatically reduce > the rejection rate, I presume, and may also increase the fun to be an > FTPmaster. Speculation only. Sadly. I suspect that automating the task done by ftp-masters will lower its quality, which I don't want. But I am also just speculating here. Seems to me that a prerequisite for discussing changes to ftpmaster tasks is deeper understanding of ftpmaster tasks. Do we already have that, and I am just missing where it is? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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