On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > But ... it happened to me in the past that I was willing to fix a couple > of bugs in an orphaned package but not to take over its maintenance. I > guess it's a pretty common scenario. In those cases having it already in > collab-maint would have eased my work. What's harmful in that?
The typical QA scenario is "apt-get source", hack, debuild, dput. Precisely because the usual QA worker doesn't care enough about the package, it's a one-shot work. So the reference is the archive itself and the SVN in the middle is of very few help. I already proposed what your describe 2 years ago at the QA meeting (with adn and sukria): Slide: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2005/qa-meeting-darmstadt/slides/2005-09-11_Collaborative-maintenance-by-external-contributors_Alexis-Sukrieh+Raphael-Hertzog+Mohammed-Adnene-Trojette/collab-maint.pdf Video: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2005/qa-meeting-darmstadt/good-quality/ogg_theora/2005-09-11_Collaborative-maintenance-by-external-contributors_Alexis-Sukrieh+Raphael-Hertzog+Mohammed-Adnene-Trojette.ogg You can see by yourself the discussions. :) > - if we don't, we can request the package removal, in such a case would > it be a big deal to have package sources left over in collab-maint? I > don't think so I'd rather not pollute the collab-maint repo too much with old crap. If we really want this, we can have a dedicated qa-packages repository. > Well, no. I'm just proposing a technical solution to ease working on > orphaned packages, I'm not affecting (or at least it's not my intention, > nor the foreseeable future I imagine) in any way how long a package > would remain in the orphaned status, not what are the consequences of > being in that status. Using a SCM is not easing our QA work because precisely there's very few coordination to do... I don't remember any conflict of work on orphaned packages. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
