On 22/01/08 at 21:53 +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:13:01AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 22/01/08 at 08:13 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > But for me, ideally this should be filing bugs about new upstream versions
> > > not sending mails to the PTS because we really want to inform the
> > > maintainer and not only the followers. I'm sure using a usertag to track
> > > them and combining this with some regexp to detect bugs manually filed
> > > with some common subject ("New upstream version") would work quite well.
> > > And if the code runs often enough, it will probably be the first to submit
> > > a bug about a new upstream version in most cases.
> >
> > I'd don't really like the idea of filing wishlist bugs automatically.
> > "new upstream version" bugs sometimes have more value than an automated
> > ping, because it provides a point of contact if the maintainer need to
> > ask why he should really update his package (instead of saying "let's
> > release with this version", for example).
>
> I tend to agree here, in my experience many maintainers get pissed if a new
> upstream version bug is opened (automatically or not) shortly after the
> upstream
> release because they might be (in contact with) upstream and/or follow the
> upstream lists.
>
> OTOH in many cases the upstream bugs are really useful if the maintainer
> simply
> misses the release. Anyhow, I'd go for a period of 30-40 days to give the
> maintainer the possibility to catch up and don't be too "aggressive".
What would be nice is:
- warn about new upstream releases as soon as the release happens on the
PTS (that's the easy part, probably)
- send a mail automatically, but only after a month or so
or another way to deal with that would be that DEHS export a parseable
page with:
package <version in debian> <version upstream> <last time upstream and
debian was in sync>
Then, I could easily add that to my monthly spam, and it would be
grouped with other info. Reduces the spam factor a lot.
--
| Lucas Nussbaum
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ |
| jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
