Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages
On 02/08/09 at 16:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:58:27PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Speaking of which it might be nice to have some area in
> > collab-maint's VCSes where to put orphaned (and even removed)
> > packages, so that it's cleared they're kind-of-dropped.
>
> This seems to be a recurring proposal. I raised it 1 year ago (IIRC,
> sorry I'm too lazy right now to look the reference) and Raphael
> Hertzog pointed out to me that way before he advanced the same
> proposal.
>
> The counter-argument I received 1 year ago is that we do not want to
> make any easier to "maintain" orphaned packages, e.g., via QA
> uploads. While I somehow understand that point of view, I still
> consider the proposal a good idea, mainly because it technically
> facilitates resurrecting the packages for the future maintainer.
>
> Cheers.
Actually, the counter-argument is that we don't want to make it *harder*
to do a QA upload. Currently, it's "apt-get source ; make change ;
dput". If we used a VCS, we would have to create:
- a process to auto-import orphaned packages into the VCS
- procedures to commit changes to VCS before doing QA uploads
I don't have numbers about that, but a fair share of QA uploads are done
by one- or two-timers, even a majority of uploads is done by QA folks.
We don't want to make it harder for those one-timers to improve the
status of orphaned packages.
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