On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 3:01:00 PM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > > The current process of updating third-party packages is broken: > > a) There isn't really anything to review beyond running it on the buildbot > b) Nobody dares to press the "positive review" button > c) Frustation to see your work waste away on trac >
I'm all too familiar with c). :P > > for example, out of the last three Gap package updates that I packaged > only one was ever looked at. So I'm proposing that I'll just merge package > updates if they *work* as long as there isn't too much wonkyness introduced > into the build script. If you have any opinion on that, please post in this > thread :-) > I think trivial version bumps can just go right in after buildbots are happy. By trivial, I mean when there is no change necessary to Sage code. However, I'm trying to learn the new spkg layout and what's changed with the old spkg methodology, so that's why I was hesitant. Best, Travis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
