[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>>> I'm not talking about the CPU compilation, etc.  I'm talking about
>>> "people resources" needed to re-do work that's already been done.  Hence
>>> my reference to certain people doing the build.
>>
>> Not if the package is built automatically by the system. If it comes
>> out of the blue it goes to pending, if it is trusted member approved
>> to contrib. I don't see re-doing work there, and avoiding people lose
>> time will keeping a trustworthy system is our greatest objective.
>
> None of which I'm arguing against if you have followed what I've written.
>
> Again, I'm talking about the "manual effort" cases which is what
> everything will be until an automated process is in place.

The automated process is in progress, and will be ready soon. :)

Luis

>
>> To become a Debian Developer you not only need to pass a technical
>> interview about packaging and open source licenses, legalities and
>> such. You need an other Debian Developer to meet you in person and
>> sign your GnuPG key, which you then have to sign all your
>> contributions with.
>>
>> OK, then you don't double check all the work of trusted people. But
>> this is very far from just letting anything in from anywhere. And in
>> Debian you do have to send the sources to be built in the official
>> machine, you have to use dput to push the packages in, and dput
>> forcefully send the source package.
>
> ...which is why I pointed out that if certain people have done the work,
> then there is no need to re-do it.
>
> Again, I'm only pointing at specific cases here; not in general.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Shawn Walker
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