Re: Bug#264774: Age horribly out-of-date RFPs.
Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> writes:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > I don't object to doing a cleanup now, but my QA bug here is not about
> > doing one now, but about creating an infrastructure and record-keeping
> > system that would provide advice and information.
>
> This system could only trigger manual checks, it's close to impossible
> to check automatically, whether a project is either dead upstream or
> undistributable. Checking whether the RPFed package name is already in
> the archive seems feasible, although it wouldn't have caught the two
> candidates I found, which were packaged under different names than
> requested in the RFPs.
Right. I just mean a thing that would provide information and advice
to people who would then do manual checks.
Oh, and there's another thing that just occurred to me.
We have a check to make sure that orphaned packages have their
maintainer set to QA, but do we have the converse?
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