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Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:08, Lucas Nussbaum<lu...@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. - -- Marco Rodrigues http://Marco.Tondela.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJKjwf7AAoJENDqNB6bSPIzM98P/jksg1pUq+7RjwsfLmDlK/Th r252UZzdfgVRXo9AVN0aLSSYyQA/SYWFjxOuYGKzEXdrm7LYbUSsJ48qQps3RBzf 43PmCCz/qn70bWm7MABLjcdlsRXInexJRrMHliaqlEs3EgnmdsjfX+ZqD1xdEk91 HOqlfYg9tjo2YunHcgJuv7IengrlOerKjBZFPeJ4enZaTJZgSnwRiycGwI6Csrql lJ2Ru1onuCduTBa6llBv4tdxtnJnBdaOsvEi2xlf9jft3ZVTwmNEhYPtcF+CclfA b72/XXD0rAhJ+wcmhVeYcPk31V9JQsFnw+OEQxiN2Lk1Oy0X6sqmegYM+riEQTcr NSuxvJge1AkTklCWxVOZNDOcyc1BIxbKp6FVpzVXT1FPHftRK51fkx+rnJtt3e/I If0jdl2n4e3wqqGqnmORunDjsIQJnE20ZP7aN6mSWiyV0urRExVAipllHaW4G5xv VmSvDOlzPqt9m5QXsl1ixdbgkBL0u6Hw8LnjhGf7wMC31ktZZYLLZ0eh5zq+36Fd 1TSgJ3NgySsmvwE0q863vCLievEQSN8kf0P2+E4st5sn5rx3rqZf91EoHRgdHvnp Twvwg94YuWhQcS7G6tpR5R7u6bvhd5xwSlifKq4Dq0x2driszWTOQL7VqlWNNLAl WM9pWBWNYS5AWz6RBppH =2tk5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
