Scripsit "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:17 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
[Context for debian-dak readers who are not following the thread in -devel: I am trying to get up to speed on how to contribute some code to ftp-master that mails out testing migration notices.] >> 1) The copy of britney in merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/ does not seem >> to be synced regularly. Is there a place where one can see the >> current code? > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_out_code/ is the "official" > current code, afaik. I didn't know that URL; thanks. Unfortunately it not exactly what I looked for; it corresponds to merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/testing/update_out/*, whereas I think that the place I need to hook in is the shell script merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/testing/britney in the parent directory. The sarge-is-frozen announcement [1] seemed to imply that these things were all under version control, but I may read that wrongly. Upon further investigation it looks like the freezing would actually be effeceted by adding a hint rather than commiting a change to the code. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00001.html >> 2) Any advice on how to test patches to ftp-master code before >> submitting them? My own scripts I can dry-run by substituting a >> dummy command for sendmail and run them in the very place where >> they will eventually function. In contrast, construcing a test >> mock-up of the ftp-master environment to do test runs of a patched >> britney appears to be highly nontrivial. Does some automation for >> this purpose exist? Or what do ftpmaster/release gurus do when you >> change code? >> 3) Do you (or somebody in QA who reads this) happen to know how the >> 'keyword' under which the PTS forwards emails is transmitted? I >> cannot find any code in katie that sets this. Does the PTS analyse >> subject lines for fixed patterns? > http://cvs.debian.org/pts/?cvsroot=qa is useful here. Thanks. Now I can se what happens. It does indeed use ad-hoc analysis of subject lines. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is subscribed to -devel-changes and processes > the mails in real-time. Not quite, afaict; katie sends email directly to <packagename>@p.qa.d.o (config setting Dinstall::TrackingServer). Then the PTS's dispatch.pl script recognizes the X-Katie header and then pattern-matches the subject to decide on a keyword. > britney and other ftp-master related topics are probably most > appropriate on [EMAIL PROTECTED], imho. I assume you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] - yes, that looks relevant. Cc:ing and setting M-F-T. -- Henning Makholm "There is a danger that curious users may occasionally unplug their fiber connector and look directly into it to watch the bits go by at 100 Mbps." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]