Re: New package review process

2007-11-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
Just slightly amended, this proposal was approved today at the MOTU meeting: STANDARD WORKFLOW: LP is where needs-packaging bugs are created to document the desire for or intent to package something. Once someone starts working on a new package, they assign the bug to themselves and set

Re: New package review process

2007-11-08 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: STANDARD WORKFLOW: LP is where needs-packaging bugs are created to document the desire for or intent to package something. Once someone starts working on a new package, they assign the bug to themselves and set status to In Progress. Once an

Re: New package review process

2007-11-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:16:26 +0100 Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: STANDARD WORKFLOW: LP is where needs-packaging bugs are created to document the desire for or intent to package something. Once someone starts working on a new package,

Re: Review Process

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Holbach
think that source packages and running debuild -S is concept hard to learn. I agree that we still need it (we'll see when NoMoreSourcePackages is going to be implemented), but I don't think that it's problematic and should be inherent to the review process. People will learn it quickly, if they use

Re: Review Process

2006-12-12 Thread Hobbsee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I knew i'd missed something!) And like Stefan, I'm not convinced that moving to a BZR-based system would actually solve any of the underlying problems. At the autobuilding, perhaps build when each lot of changes is made. Cheers! Sarah Hobbs. aka

Re: Review Process

2006-12-12 Thread Hobbsee
MOTU or hopeful can tell them. But even if the hopeful is getting *some* feedback, that's probably better than nothing. Things, that I'm really missing in revu though, and that would be a great plus for the review process: * for packages already in the archive, revu sucks. Also for merges

Review Process

2006-12-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, some of you might have heard of the CodeReview spec or might even have had a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodeReviewSLA - The spec was now approved and is a new proposal to attack our problems with reviewing NEW packages. We had several discussions at UDS, and to me

Re: Review Process

2006-12-11 Thread Stefan Potyra
the new process for universe in a good shape soon. To understand the whole problem, I'd first of all like to take a look behind the idea of the reviewing process: Imho the review process currently serves four goals: 1) get more software into ubuntu 2) keep the (new) software in ubuntu in good