That reminds me of one thing that I wanted to mention... I'm of course assuming that the package comes from either the maintainer (see SPKG.txt) or somebody whom I trust to have the technical abilities. In any case I'll always have a quick look...
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 4:39:56 AM UTC, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > > 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.
