On 05/08/09 at 14:41 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:27:22AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Actually, the counter-argument is that we don't want to make it > > *harder* to do a QA upload. > > That was not the counter-argument back then [1], it might be a new / > different counter-argument. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/08/msg00073.html
Actually, it kind-of was, see the subthread that starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/08/msg00076.html > > Currently, it's "apt-get source ; make change ; > > dput". If we used a VCS, we would have to create: > > - a process to auto-import orphaned packages into the VCS > > - procedures to commit changes to VCS before doing QA uploads > > > > I don't have numbers about that, but a fair share of QA uploads are done > > by one- or two-timers, even a majority of uploads is done by QA folks. > > We don't want to make it harder for those one-timers to improve the > > status of orphaned packages. > > Frankly, I don't buy this. Nowadays everybody should be able to work > with common $VCS. But even when this is not the case, $VCSs are always > unofficial wrt the archive: it is not *mandatory* to use them, even > for normal (non-QA) NMUs. > > So even checking in orphaned packages in $VCS does not make it harder > to do a QA upload. If you want to use it: fine, otherwise you can > always upload the "old" way. I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. You want to import all orphaned packages into $VCS, so that it is easier for people to work on them. But then, you want to allow people to upload orphaned packages without using $VCS, which would lead to a very confusing situation. 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? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
