Re: Debconf QA BOF summary / handling of orphaned packages
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Sandro Tosi wrote:
> 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.
In the upload part, I just use mentors for that. I don't need to VCS for nothing
in these cases. I think to import debian/ to VCS is only a time and server wasting.
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Marco Rodrigues
http://Marco.Tondela.org
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