على الخميس 19 كانون الثاني 2017 05:14، كتب Andreas Tille: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:59:36PM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >>> >>>> daligner/dazzdb/dascrubber probably have new upstream snapshots that need >>>> to >>>> be packaged. >>> >>> OK, these do not create any singnal on my dashboard so I'll leave this >>> for now. >> >> That is because upstream doesn't make releases. I've just updated them now. > > Yes, I know. BTW, I have usccessfully requested release tags for > pbbarcode. So I personally will open an issue for any Github project > I'm stumbling upon since it has no tags. I have heard about that these > developers are a bit stubborn about tags but I'll try my own luch > anyway. >
See https://github.com/thegenemyers/DALIGNER/issues/35 I did not get any response to this ticket until I tried pinging the author via email. It was still not a positive response. I don't think I've ever managed to convince anybody of making release tags, so I've somewhat given up. >>> Sure. That's for most of us the normal situation. I did not intended >>> to create any pressure - just wanted to coordinate a bit. We do what we >>> manage to do and if some newer version is not ready than be it so. I >>> just wanted to prevent that I might have used some spare cycles to >>> polish old software if some new might have pending tasks I could have >>> easily done. >>> >> >> In case you are referring to pbbarcode, that upstream has deprecated some >> software while people are still relying on it, so I don't consider this a >> waste. > > Yes, upstream of pbbarcode confirmed its deprecated but its now tagged > and thus does not create any noise any more in our QA tools. BTW, I > restricted the test suite to some tests since the second part took > *incredibly* long (so long that I even stopped the process on my > laptop). I'm not sure whether this is "*intended operation* or whether > this is a sign of a failure. > I remember there was this test that took a while, but I'd go do something else while I ran it. > But no, I was not refering to any specific package in my paragraph above. > Ok >> pbh5tools is in a similar situation. > > I left it untouched since it did not raised any signal in the QA tools. > It is in good shape. I just pointed out that this is another one that upstream will tell you is deprecated. regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name
