Hello Stuart, thanks for the information! I am personally OK with the idea of committing directly to the Science packages, not sure about the opinions of other team members.
But if it improves the overall package quality - I am totally for this. Otherwise, I did not find an opportunity to blacklist some packages for the janitor, not being touched by this tool. There are some difficult ones, so I would prefer to have this option. Do you know, whether it is possible? Thanks! Anton Am So., 27. Nov. 2022 um 06:02 Uhr schrieb Stuart Prescott <[email protected]>: > > Hi folks > > tl;dr: there lots of untriaged MRs on salsa; let's permit Janitor to > automatically commit its updates > > > There are lots of MRs on salsa for science-team packages that are open. > Many of these have been open for months and many have no comments, > triage or feedback visible on salsa. Many of these have been made by > first time contributors who, by virtue of their MRs sitting > unacknowledged and unmerged for months, think we don't care. That's not > our intended message! > > Attached are: > > * a list of MRs that are currently open on salsa (sorted by package) > > * associated dd-list of maintainers/uploaders for these packages > > If you don't currently get notified about MRs being opened for packages > you are interested in, I encourage you to tweak your salsa notification > preferences. My approach to this is to "star" packages for which I am > maintainer, uploader, or otherwise interested enough in that I'd like to > see notifications for MRs. > > > In amongst the human-generated MRs, there was also a huge number of > automated MRs from the Janitor bot. Over the last couple of days I've > been through Janitor's MRs (about 200 of them). These are all really > simple changes, each of which I checked and almost all of them I have > merged. > > For those not familiar with Janitor, it looks for easy to fix issues in > the packaging that are flagged by lintian (or other similar tools) and > fixes them. Unlike lintian, it has internet access and knowledge of the > Debian archive, so it can do extra things like update upstream homepages > or remove obsolete version constraints on packages. Janitor's fixes > range from pedantic to very useful; even the more pedantic ones steadily > improve the signal:noise of lintian and so lintian becomes more useful > on those packages. > > https://janitor.debian.net/ > > I propose that we let Janitor make these commits directly rather than > opening MRs; quite a few other teams in Debian have done this and it is > working well. Janitor has proven itself to be reliable and useful. Since > we've now been able to see that Janitor's changes are OK for a few > years, we can safely cut out the manual work and just let the bot get on > with its work. Comments? > > regards > Stuart > > -- > Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ [email protected] > Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] > GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
