I very much like the idea of a debian watch like system (I periodically check my own packages, but they're not official)... Perhaps packages could have a maintainer, but don't necesserely have to... like assigning to distro in jira?
Jack Doerner There are worse crimes than burning books One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Eric Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way that we can create a system like the debian to watch > upstream for new versions being released of packages in the repo? > Debian uses watch files to do this and they have a web site that shows > all of the packages that are behind in version. I'm not really sure > how we could do something like this with the foresight repos though. > The last thing I think that we would want is for the end users to tell > us that a package that they really want to use is not up to date. > > Also, should we create a maintainers list? Something that would assign > a packager / dev to a package. Then that person is responsible for > keeping the package up to date. The hard part would be if the packager > ever left foresight then we would have to have a list of the packages > assigned to them and reassign them to different people. > > -- > Thanks, > > Eric Lake > _______________________________________________ > Foresight-devel mailing list > Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org > http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel > _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
