On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:39 PM Randy Barlow <bowlofe...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-01-28 at 09:03 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > If you want to go even further with this idea, then it could even be > > possible we allow packages into Fedora without any review. They > > would > > start in the outermost stream in a "there be dragons" repository that > > only the foolhardy would enable, but as their quality improved they > > would *automatically* migrate into the mainstream. > > We would need to at least have license review. Though automation can > help with licensing, there are weird things sometimes that only a human > could detect, like this[0]: > > https://github.com/szymach/c-pchart/issues/35 > > I do think we could automate a lot of the other elements of review > though, and I agree that it would be helpful. > > Having a bot at least check for the obvious licence problems would > still be helpful, but a bot that approves a package license still needs > to be double checked by a human, in my opinion. The bot would be > helpful in catching negatives (no license, or unacceptable license, > etc.) >
This is something that I'm working on trying to bring over from the openSUSE community to Fedora. They've written a web app[1] that actually does this and they wired it into the contribution processes built into their build system so that they can get these done reasonably well and have a good understanding of the license makeup of their distribution of packages. There's a few things left and I'm hoping to try to spin up a test instance running on Fedora to see how it works. [1]: https://github.com/openSUSE/cavil -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
