Hello sage-devel,

I feel a bit guilty asking this after having assigned reviews to
people (the response has been great btw, thanks!), but I realise that
my Sage development education has a significant flaw: I don't know the
proper way to review an spkg.

There is good documentation in the developer guide for (a) creating an
spkg and (b) reviewing patches in trac.  However, I couldn't find
anything about reviewing spkg's, and some things are rather different
from just patches.  For instance, does one have to build the spkg on
all platforms supported by Sage?  Should one check that spkg-install
and SPKG.txt conform to the recommendations for making an spkg?  Is
the procedure for experimental/optional spkg's different than the one
for standard spkg's?

What I am looking for is a step-by-step description that would guide
me through that process of reviewing, so that I don't give a positive
review to something that will create a Sage botnet :)  Does such a
document exist?  If not, can the accumulated wisdom of sage-devel put
one together?


Best,
Alex

-- 
Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne
-- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/

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