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From: | Colin Macdonald |
Subject: | OF: proposal for reviewing packages |
Date: | Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:26:23 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 |
Currently we package maintainers upload a tarball (and a doc tarball). We then wait for "team of admins" (nee Carnë) to process.
Instead, we could first require that *another* package maintainer needs to "sign-off". This person would ensure the package installs, tests pass on their machine, code is up-to-date on sourceforge, maintainers Makefile functions correctly, or whatever else seems appropriate (e.g., a checklist on the wiki).
For example: 1. I submit a ticket for a new Symbolic release. 2. Oliver (say) reviews that ticket and gives it a "+1". 3. "team of admins" can release it.Oliver is motivated to do this review because when he wants to release Interval, others (esp. me) will be motivated to review it. Thus an additional benefit is that we newcomer OF maintainers become more familiar/involved with each others' packages, thus improving the OF community.
best, Colin
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