On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > I'd *really* like to see us get to a point where package review is > fully-automated. Basically we could just have a web-service that you pass a > URL to an SRPM plus authenticate with your FAS account and it will perform > all of the validity checks and if they all pass would go ahead and request > the branches for you and import the SRPM. > > Once this is fully automated, we can then *also* add the same checks to CI > (taskotron, OSCI or whatever) so that on each build it gets rerun, which > will allow us to help reduce the rate of packages falling out of compliance > (as well as being updated whenever the checks get made more comprehensive). > > Historically, we've had human review mainly to protect against two things, > bundling and unacceptable licenses. In both of these cases, I'd like for us > to move towards a culture of assuming goodwill on behalf of our packagers. > Most of the packagers in Fedora have been doing it for a long time and know > what is and is not acceptable. Optimizing for the minority case is wasteful, > especially when it adds hurdles and delays to getting software delivered.
Also (at least in my experience), generally licensing issues get caught by a human inspecting the output of "licensecheck", which fedora-review currently runs automatically anyway. If the automated review process did this and showed the results to the packager, I bet we would catch a lot of the licensing/bundling problems. Anyway, I really like this idea. Maybe we should still require quasi-manual reviews for new contributors as part of the sponsorship process, though? Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TH7WI36C373Y65YOK5LUXHMCGBFRB5TG/
