First post on -qa for me, I am not a DD and I joined the list after Raphael's QA talk at RMLL.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:19:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 17:52 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But building packages from a suvbersion repository can be done > > > automatically. So yes, we could provide automatically unofficial > > > packages to the users. > > > > I'm fine with that, but I'm against making them official packages. > > That's not your call. The DD who checks the package decides if he wants > to upload it or not. What's the difference between your proposal and : - Some DDs with free time decide to co-maintain packages which : - don't require too much work - are orphaned or not well maintained - have (power-)users willing to help with the maintainership - To do so, they use a mailing list, a wiki, etc, and a SVN repository - Write access to this SVN repository is given to the (power-)users willing to help - DDs will try to rely mostly on the (non-DD) users for package maintenance tasks. Ideally, they would only be in charge of the package uploads. Presented like that, it might look less world-changing. The issue that hasn't been raised yet (I think) is granularity : - How many alioth projects ? One for all packages ? One per package ? - How many mailing lists ? One global for all packages ? One per package + one global ? - How many SVN repositories ? One for all packages ? One per package ? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
