Bug#356826: PTS: could e-mail when DEHS detects new upstream release
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, atomo64@gmail.com wrote:
> I asked about adding a new tag because summary is by default sent to
> the maintainer unless I've never really payed too much attention and
> the testing migration email is sent to both, the maintainer and the
> PTS.
That's the case: the testing mail is sent both the the maintainer and to
the PTS.
> When discussing about this topic with several people some have asked
> me not to make the PTS send the notifications by default. And for the
> sake of simplicity I think it is far easier to use the PTS'
> subscription system with a new tag and let then decide whether to make
> it the default or not.
Well, the tag mechanism is nice but I definitely don't want to add many
very-specific keywords until it gets unmanageable. So I won't create a new
keyword... if you want to send a mail to the PTS send it to the summary
keyword (you send a mail to
<srcpkg>_summary@packages.qa.debian.org but in the To: field you only put
<srcpkg>@packages.debian.org to hide the keyword specific email address).
> > But for me, ideally this should be filing bugs about new upstream versions
> > not sending mails to the PTS because we really want to inform the
> > maintainer and not only the followers. I'm sure using a usertag to track
> > them and combining this with some regexp to detect bugs manually filed
> > with some common subject ("New upstream version") would work quite well.
> > And if the code runs often enough, it will probably be the first to submit
> > a bug about a new upstream version in most cases.
>
> With the current design DEHS would email the PTS immediately after it
> finds a new upstream version.
> As others have expressed their concern, I don't think auto bug filing
> is the best way to do this.
Well, maybe the right way is to let some time pass as suggested by Lucas
and others. Provide the real-time information on the web page, but only
open a bug when two weeks have elapsed and when the new version is
neither in unstable nor in experimental.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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