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...
>

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