Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages
On 05/08/09 at 14:16 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> (05/08/2009):
> > 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.
>
> Just to clarify, I meant moving collab-maint/foo.git to e.g.
> collab-maint/orphaned/foo.git to make it obvious to folks browsing the
> repository that it's orphaned, while retaining the history. Not
> suggesting to put everything under $VCS. Sorry for the bad phrasing.
Do people actually browse the repository like that? I never do that.
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