Bug#741233: qa.debian.org: send periodic emails for testing migration issues
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 15:29:10 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> CC-ing d-release.
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 02:35:13PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > There are multiple reasons for packages not migrating to testing.
> > Currently, AFAIK, the maintainer has no automated way of knowing this.
> >
> > It would be good if an automated email is send whenever a migration is
> > stalled for some reason.
>
> Ubuntu recently implemented this in their britney instance, see the
> commits starting by
> https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/britney/+git/britney2-ubuntu/commit/?id=2775a5435ca04a11f9692054ffdf5bd3bc1982fa
>
> I also concour this is a great idea, but I wonder if this should rather
> go in britney2 (as Ubuntu did) or somewhere else, and whether it should
> be maintained by the release team or some other team; I already find
> weird that the testing watcher is not run by them.
>
Patches welcome, I guess? I would argue there's value in a central
thing sending that sort of mail rather than each service sending its own
separate reminders. Once upon a time ddpo-by-mail sort of did this, I think?
Cheers,
Julien
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