Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:08, Lucas Nussbaum<lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> I don't think that our current workflow for QA uploads is suboptimal,
> but I have not done many QA uploads. Maybe the best thing to do would be
> to ask people who do a lot of QA uploads, and see if using a VCS would
> help them?
I did some qa uploads (so if that doesn't qualify as 'a lot', simply
ignore this email).
I don't think importing all (or a part) orphaned packages in a
(public) VCS is anything near helpful. Which one to choose, for
example? one may like A and dislike B, while another may love C, quite
like B and dislike A, and another one prefers B over anything else; or
any other possible combinations.
I think that the best workflow for a QA upload is: take the canonical
source package (hence from the debian archive), do the needed changes,
upload. Simple, fast, no additional layers not strictly needed (that
could scare potential contributors): as it should be for a *temporary*
maintainership of a package.
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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