On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:03:24 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > >> I was thinking we could use packages-pending so that non-DDs would > >> just copy the trunks they worked with over there. When a DD notices > >> there is a package in -pending, he just assumes it is ready to be > >> uploaded. > > Hm, and how would the DDs notice? > By combination of mailing list notification and polling. Here's an > example with the recent update to newer upstream versions. (with a bit > of humour that is intended to actually be a credit) :-) > - Gregor prepares a heap of updated packages and posts a message to the > mailing lest. > - Various DDs pick some packages by whatever order they wish, upload > them and remove them from packages-pending [..] Ok, i.e. the -pending tree would be some kind of a dynamic TODO list. I start to like the idea, especially because ... > The problem with ML-only variant that *I* have is that I can't easily > tell what packages still need uploading. I have to compare several mails > and this can easily go wrong. (not that it would be fatal, but still) ... I tend to lose track in the mails, too ;-) > Perhaps we can give that a try without too much trouble? Sounds like a plan. Maybe /pending might be more appropriate than duplicating the /packages branch into /packages-pending (assuming the potential new repo layout -- which doesn't have /packages anymore anyway :))? Good night, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: STS: Mach die Aug'n zu
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