On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 16:11:25 (CET), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 02:26:19PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote: >> I wanted to remind you that stretchplayer is, as far as I can see, >> ready for upload. >> >> As I didn't want to nag, but didn't want this package to be forgotten >> about either, I talked to Reinhard on IRC about a way to keep >> track. Using usertags to tag the (ITP) bugs seems like a reasonable >> approach. A report of tags can be obtained by: >> >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=upload-requested >> >> I'd say this tag could also be used on other bugs for which a fix is >> available in our git. >> >> If this seems like a good idea to you, too, I'll document this at the >> wiki. > > Hmm. If the intend is to maintain an overview of a relatively large > pile of pending tasks then using usertags seem sensible to me. > > But if the intend is to ping DDs then posting to our mailinglist is > better IMO.
Both can be done with the very same email, just like Arnout just did. For me as sponsor, I wish a ready and up-to-date list of packages that require review and uploading, and I hope that this approach helps here. The thing is that I cannot really predict when I have how much time to devote for pkg-multimedia. Usually, it is not that much at a time, and I usually start with reading the mailing list. And by the time I stumble about an upload request, I have to move on to non-debian related things. With just a list, I could get to the reviewing step much faster. > Related to this it might be interesting to compare with how the Perl > team does it: > > When a package is in progress, the distribution field in changelog is > set to UNRELEASED, and when the (main) maintainer(s) feel the package is > ready for release the field is changed to unstable (or experimental or > whatever is appropriate). I think this is reasonable and to my observation, is already happening in pkg-multimedia. > This (ab)use of the release field is supported by tools like debchange, > and is also used in the tool PET which AFAIK informs on IRC about > pending packages. PET was written for Subversion and currently does not > support git - the Perl team is interested in that improvement, so if > anyone here use IRC and see the benefit of that improvement, there is an > open challenge for you. Having a PET instance for our team would be really cool to have! > To me it seems that if we go for a more formal way to hint packages > being ready for release, then it makes sense to use (parts of) same > approach the Perl team use. Perhaps it then makes sense - instead of > improving PET or in addition to that - to write a git hook which > auto-applies usertags? On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 16:45:41 (CET), Arnout Engelen wrote: > So when this hook is triggered it would check the changelog, and if the > distribution field of the latest entry is something other than UNRELEASED, it > would add the 'upload-requested' usertag to any bugs closed in this changelog > entry? I don't think this would be a good idea. While the bug in question might be fixed, the package in git might not be 'good' enough for upload because of other reasons. This cannot be decided automatically. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
