Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, The LowThresholdNMU wiki page[0] lists maintainers (and packages) for which NMUs are welcomed. However, in it's current form, it's quite useless: it's very difficult to check if a given package is NMU-friendly, since the page is not machine-parseable. Also, since it's not very useful and

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, The LowThresholdNMU wiki page[0] lists maintainers (and packages) for which NMUs are welcomed. However, in it's current form, it's quite useless: it's very difficult to check if a given package is NMU-friendly, since the page is not

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:24:21AM +, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: which NMUs are welcomed. However, in it's current form, it's quite useless: it's very difficult to check if a given package is NMU-friendly, since the page is not machine-parseable. Also, since it's not very useful and visible, it

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/07/07 at 10:08 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: (1) the list should move to a text file in a VCS. For example, we could use a special directory in the collab-maint alioth project, or simply a repository writable by all DDs on svn.d.o. This would improve the way history is kept too.

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/07/07 at 10:20 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: (1) the list should move to a text file in a VCS. For example, we could use a special directory in the collab-maint alioth project, or simply a repository writable by all DDs on svn.d.o. This would improve the way history is kept too.

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread paddy
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:16:58PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Another problem is that having a complex format will make syntax errors easy, and it would be better to be able to validate the changes immediately. So I thought of a VCS with the list, and a parser script. would it be practical

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Mario Iseli
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:08:01AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: That's a good idea, perhaps the PTS maintainers could comment what the best way of integrating the information there would be? Would inventing a header called 'XS-NMUs-Welcome: yes' in debian/control help here? Does it make

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-11 15:22]: On 11/07/07 at 10:08 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: (1) the list should move to a text file in a VCS. For example, we could use a special directory in the collab-maint alioth project, or simply a repository writable by all DDs on

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I can't find how I can get the full history of LowThresholdNMU, which could be a problem in case of abuse. http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu?action=info shows most of the history, and all of it is present and diffable. Another problem is that

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/07/07 at 12:29 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I can't find how I can get the full history of LowThresholdNMU, which could be a problem in case of abuse. http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu?action=info shows most of the history, and all of

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:24:21AM +, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, The LowThresholdNMU wiki page[0] lists maintainers (and packages) for which NMUs are welcomed. IMHO this should be the default for everyone without exception, and I feel sorry we need such a page. I mean, there is two

Re: Improving the visibility of LowThresholdNMU

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:23:07PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:24:21AM +, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: The LowThresholdNMU wiki page[0] lists maintainers (and packages) for which NMUs are welcomed. IMHO this should be the default for everyone without exception,