Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Trevor Watson wrote:
>> Stephen Hahn wrote:

>>> PKG_ID:
>>> PKG_DESC:
>> As either Bart or Danek said earlier, can't we grab this from the pkg 
>> itself?
> 
> In the current process, this form is used to request permission to submit
> a package to the repository from which Nevada builds are made, so the
> package isn't visible to the reviewers yet, and this form helps verify it's
> correctly constructed before it's put into the repository.    

Exactly. The package RTI form and process is meant for sending the proposed 
information to a group of reviewers without requiring them to examine the 
package directly. It's a "heads-up" to allow for any issues to be resolved 
before the package gets delivered into the Release Engineering repository. The 
idea is to a) give a chance for feedback (like "is the package really needed 
in the miniroot?") and b) make sure that there are no surprises once it is 
time to build the Solaris image.

> Perhaps the IPS repository submission process can automate many of these 
> checks.

I think what you are suggesting is that a "request to package" process should 
be able to automatically fill in as many fields as possible, without the need 
for the submitter to make little checkmarks in boxes. That would be preferable 
provided that an IPS package has the required metadata.

-- Alan S.
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