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

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