Re: proposal: upload to the collab-maint repo orphaned packages

2007-08-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > For the moment I've only had the time to read the slide, I'll postpone > the .ogg. But indeed my proposal is exactly the same as yours ... and > actually your slides contradict what you're claiming above. I guess > that's because the discussion after

Re: proposal: upload to the collab-maint repo orphaned packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:12:50PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The typical QA scenario is "apt-get source", hack, debuild, dput. > Precisely because the usual QA worker doesn't care enough about the > package, it's a one-shot work. So the reference is the archive itself and > the SVN in the mid

Re: proposal: upload to the collab-maint repo orphaned packages

2007-08-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > But ... it happened to me in the past that I was willing to fix a couple > of bugs in an orphaned package but not to take over its maintenance. I > guess it's a pretty common scenario. In those cases having it already in > collab-maint would have eas

Re: proposal: upload to the collab-maint repo orphaned packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:45:51PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > It's in my opinion not a good idea to promote orphaned packages. If an > orphaned package is worth keeping, it should find a maintainer easily. Else > it should be marked for removal, not added to the collab-maint svn > repository IMHO

Re: proposal: upload to the collab-maint repo orphaned packages

2007-08-17 Thread Luk Claes
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Hi, maybe I'm proposing something obvious or already attempted in the past here, ... but let's try anyway! In order to spread the adagio that ``every DD is Debian QA'', what about uploading to the collab-maint subversion repository on alioth [1] all the orphaned package

proposal: upload to the collab-maint repo orphaned packages

2007-08-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi, maybe I'm proposing something obvious or already attempted in the past here, ... but let's try anyway! In order to spread the adagio that ``every DD is Debian QA'', what about uploading to the collab-maint subversion repository on alioth [1] all the orphaned packages which lack a collaborative