Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:03:26 AM Matthias Klose wrote: > On 10/05/2011 10:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 09:30:22 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: > >> To take an example I think porting universe GNOME2 applets to GNOME3 > >> wouldn't be a good use of our time,

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 03:27:13 PM Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit : > > > You might not ever hear about it, but every time something is > > > removed you are potentially let

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit : > > You might not ever hear about it, but every time something is > > removed you are potentially letting people down. > > Right, but every time an annoying but in a sof

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit : > You > might not ever hear about it, but every time something is removed you > are potentially letting people down. Right, but every time an annoying but in a software that 90% of our users run is not fixed because the time has been spe

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:30:22PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 16:08 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > > > During the oneiric development cycle we had syncs of library packages > > from > > experimental, introducing new sonames, and changing APIs in a w

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:21:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > […] > > > > All three cases have in common that the packages were left alone for > > > > month

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Matthias Klose
On 10/05/2011 10:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 09:30:22 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> To take an example I think porting universe GNOME2 applets to GNOME3 >> wouldn't be a good use of our time, we better spend the resources we >> have making sure our current desktop

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > […] > > > All three cases have in common that the packages were left alone for > > > months. The third example could have been avoided if we could check > > > build depende

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 05.10.2011, 14:35 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Oct 05, 2011, at 07:07 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: > > >The sponsors not requesting testing and a transition effort commitment > >is something I've noticed too. I see transition sync requests that I > >don't look at immediately beca

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Robert Collins
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Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 16:08 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > - Get approval for a library sync from experimental, listing >the rdepends, API changes, and estimate the effort to >complete this library transition. Being involved in a small part of the cleanup, I would agree. I think this o

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/10/5 Colin Watson : > I don't want to add extra archive-admin checking to the sync process; > firstly, we're moving towards self-service syncs anyway, and secondly, > as the libav example shows, syncs aren't really special here. I agree that this shouldn't be an archive-admin job. However, du

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 09:30:22 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 16:08 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > During the oneiric development cycle we had syncs of library packages > > from > > experimental, introducing new sonames, and changing APIs in a way that > >

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/10/5 Sebastien Bacher : > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 16:08 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : >> During the oneiric development cycle we had syncs of library packages >> from experimental, introducing new sonames, and changing APIs in a way that >> other > The issue is not really specific to e

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 16:08 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > During the oneiric development cycle we had syncs of library packages > from > experimental, introducing new sonames, and changing APIs in a way that > other Hi, The issue is not really specific to experimental, that could

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Barry (2011.10.05_20:35:43_+0200) > Maybe we need to find ways to flag such potentially troublesome syncs early in > the process, so that it's more clear to the developer and/or sponsor. I feel that it should be obvious, if we are actually making any effort to review the sync, beyond "does it b

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 05, 2011, at 07:07 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: >The sponsors not requesting testing and a transition effort commitment >is something I've noticed too. I see transition sync requests that I >don't look at immediately because they'll need a fair amount of review, >and 10 mins later someone has

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 07:07:03PM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Scott (2011.10.05_18:23:38_+0200) > > If it's not clear that developers are responsible for this, then we > > ought to communicate this better (and I include if you sponsor such > > an upload/sync then I think you are on the hook

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Scott (2011.10.05_18:23:38_+0200) > When I started a library transition I've always felt it was my job to drive it > to closure. That's certainly what I've always seen people say when asked how transitions were managed in Ubuntu. > If it's not clear that developers are responsible for this, t

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 04:17:43 PM Iain Lane wrote: > Hiya, > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > […] > > > > > All three cases have in common that the packages were left alone for > > > months. The third example could have been avoided if we could check >

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Iain Lane
Hiya, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > […] > > All three cases have in common that the packages were left alone for > > months. The third example could have been avoided if we could check > > build dependencies when syncing, and rejecting the sync when the > > b-d's

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:08:31PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > During the oneiric development cycle we had syncs of library packages from > experimental, introducing new sonames, and changing APIs in a way that other > packages need to be ported to the new API, or if the port isn't trivial, need