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

proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-05 Thread Matthias Klose
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 to be removed at the end of the cycle. This doesn't add much benefit