On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:01:00 UTC-7, 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 > > 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 :-) > > [ ] Yes, go ahead > [ ] No, I want to volunteer as the reviewer for package upgrades > > See also: http://trac.sagemath.org/15582 >
How about a slight twist on the first option: [X] Have a whitelist of developers who are allowed to post an updated package and set them to positive review immediately (listing themselves as reviewers) because they judge the update to be trivial and in no need of discussion It is one thing to blindly trust Volker Braun's GAP update, but that fresh gcc-5.3 package from Folker Brown looks suspicious... -- 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.
