On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 02:21:21PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > Andreas Hasenack [2017-12-07 9:56 -0200]: > > Is there a non-technical reason for sponsorees not being able to click the > > retry link for their sponsored uploads? > > The main intent for restricting the retry function is that running tests is > fairly expensive in terms of infrastructure resources. We want to avoid that > arbitrary people can DoS the infra by wild retry clicking (or even automating > that), and (to a lesser degree) also encourage people to actually fix flaky > tests. > > If you can upload a package, then this will auto-trigger tests, thus uploaders > are allowed to directly retry. This isn't the case for sponsorees. > > However, if there is a good way of associating an upload with a sponsoree in > the Launchpad API (which isn't quite obvious), I think this would be an > acceptable addition. The policy can still be tightened in the future if it > gets > abused, and the retry queue does record who requested the runs :-)
I believe a source package publishing history's package_creator is the one who made the change and if it is different than the package_signer then you know package_creator is the sponsoree. -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
