On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:12:16PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 10/17/2012 4:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I've hacked at the get-cygwin-package script > >I take it this script is run by hand when a human has decided to do >something about an RFU message? > >If so, is there a plan or even a wish for getting to a point where a >script can run on sourceware.org (?) and just monitor the list for RFU >messages and handle them all automatically?
I've been thinking about this problem for many years. I have lots of ideas on how to make this automatic. I have even partially implemented a more robust version of this which relied on package maintainers logging in via ssh into a chroot jail where packages are uploaded to a staging area which ran upset on packages before copying them to the final release area. I wasn't really satisified with it though, partly because I thought it would be a maintenance headache and partly because I was paranoid about security. Someday, possibly, I'll complete something like that and make the whole RFU thing obsolete. In the meantime, this is only intended as a useful utility for people who handle "RFU"s. cgf
