On 02/12/09 at 13:08 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi all, > during my routine NMUs, I often stumble upon potential "bad" packages > (in the same sense of "bad" used by "bapase" [1]). Some times I ask for > their removal, sometimes they seem to me borderline, so I just NMU them. > > In the latter case however, I've performed some review work about the > appropriateness of removing in the future the package from the archive, > unless something very good happens (e.g. the maintainer come back to > life, or something such). I think it is a waste to have my review work > and my possible notices lost, since someone else will in the future > probably do the same again when stumbling over that package. > > So, question, do we have a place where to store notices about packages > we think can be potentially removed from the archive? > > A common medium used for that are the comments in the bts.turmzimmer > service, by they are shown only if the package has at least one open RC > bug. I think we could use something QA-centered, that can in the future > help periodic round of removal request by QA (which is a related topic > I'll probably raise in the near future). > > Would it make sense to complement bapase with a very simple note taking > system that will create a database of human-provided "bad" notes about a > given package?
Bapase uses a file for that (package-actions.txt, in collab-qa/bapase/). Example: gutenbrowser 2007-06-20 lucas PROP_RM(429795) gutenbrowser 2007-10-12 lucas WAIT(30) gutenbrowser 2007-11-29 lucas WAIT(15) maintainer responsive, but big issues. gutenbrowser 2007-12-18 lucas WAIT(50) working version with Qt4 in the works. Let's wait. gutenbrowser 2008-04-04 lucas WAIT(20) pinged pere in #429795 gutenbrowser 2008-08-07 djpig WAIT(30) new upstream uploaded, but not migrated yet gutenbrowser 2008-09-17 djpig OK might not make it into lenny, but still ok from our PoV The PROP_RM(), WAIT() and OK are parsed to generate the status of the package in bapase. We could add LOOKS_SUSPICIOUS or something, to report packages that need action. I'm of course open to moving the file elsewhere. I would prefer "elsewhere" not to be a wiki, though. -- | 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
