Re: OF: proposal for reviewing packages

[PhilipNienhuis]

Carnë Draug wrote
> On 12 January 2017 at 20:26, Colin Macdonald <

> address@hidden

> > wrote:
>> I've been somewhat following the various threads.  Here is a small
>> suggestion to help with workload of the "team of admins" being discussed:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> This has always been the case, the releases are open for anyone to
> review.  It just happens that very few developers actually do it
> (Marco Atzeri is probably the person who does it more often).  I am
> not sure if you need to do anything to get notifications from
> sourceforge about pending releases.  I don't remember having to do
> anything to get the notifications.

FWIW, I only ever got notifications for the tickets I uploaded there myself.
So some form of subscription might be required.

Philip



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