Re: Some ideas from the "Supporting 15.000 packages" BoF

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:15:49PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > debtags seemed the most passable choice. I believe we need: > * [etch|lenny]-security-unsupported to flag that a source package has no > support by the Security Team. It should be distribution-specific to > allow revoking

Re: Some ideas from the "Supporting 15.000 packages" BoF

2007-07-07 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Here's the ideas that I have heard (and written) during the "Supporting > 15.000 packages" BoF which happened during DebConf7. I should probably > have posted this earlier, but, well, better now than never... Thanks for taking notes. > The security team is already overloa

Re: Some ideas from the 'Supporting 15.000 packages' BoF

2007-06-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, June 28, 2007 13:48, Michael Stone wrote: >> Once we've released a package in stable and as 'supported', we will >> support it until the end of that stable's life. I would not want to >> retract the supportedness of a package during stable's lifetime; our >> users should be able to use stab

Re: Some ideas from the "Supporting 15.000 packages" BoF

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:38:19AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:07, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: * Have a new release policy of not releasing orphaned packages in stable. Interested maintainers would then have to adopt them or let them be removed by the Q&A team. I

Re: Some ideas from the "Supporting 15.000 packages" BoF

2007-06-27 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:07, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Here's the ideas that I have heard (and written) during the "Supporting > 15.000 packages" BoF which happened during DebConf7. Good that there's discussion about this issue. > * Have a new release policy of not releasing orphaned packages in

Re: Some ideas from the "Supporting 15.000 packages" BoF

2007-06-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/06/07 at 11:03 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * When packages look abandonend, fill a RC bug saying "if you don't > >close this bug in a month, will ask for removal". > > => That was done already done by the Q&A team. > > It was

Re: Some ideas from the "Supporting 15.000 packages" BoF

2007-06-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * When packages look abandonend, fill a RC bug saying "if you don't >close this bug in a month, will ask for removal". > => That was done already done by the Q&A team. It was done a long time ago, another run wouldn't hurt. The reactions were mo